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by Michael Chabon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; New edition edition (4 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857029852
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857029857
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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'The young star of American letters, "star" not in the current sense of cheap celebrity, but in the old sense of brightly shining hope. He is a writer not only of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity.' Washington Post 'What's most alive in this book is the witty and resonant prose that has always been Chabon's strength, a prose in which sharp observation shades into metaphor' New York Times Book Review


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Chabon is a superb craftsman. He writes richly formal prose. Phrases are shaped to give pleasure in themselves'
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb introduction to a talented writer, 7 Jul 2009
By M. Witcombe "mikethescottish" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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At its core, 'Werewolves in Their Youth' is a collection of eloquent and moving stories about the fragility of human relationships. Yet despite this fragility, you never quite shake the sense that in the alternately amusing, profound and downbeat stories in here, loneliness is as hopeless an alternative as conventional community. This book is, as a result, made of odd stuff indeed.

Chabon's characters are frequently outsiders, or people breaking through the limits of conventions both societal and self-imposed. The family unit remains the focus, the scattering of individual pieces of the post-nuclear American family. As such, the stories are bound by opposites- childbirth and child death, marriage and divorce, separation and reconciliation. Yet they remain effective in their own right.

The collection opens with the title story, 'Werewolves in their Youth', a story of absent fathers that manages to enter convincingly into a child's perspective. The father in 'Son of the Wolfman' is also absent, albeit in a more startling fashion, yet the stories follow a similar path of withdrawl and reconciliation. Or there's stories like the wrly comic 'House Hunting', where a drunk estate agent serves up a timely reminder of the innate difficulty of marriage to a couple of erotically uninspired newlyweds.

The stories here run the risk of being 'worthy'- the topics they handle are inherantly serious. In the hands of a less skilful writer, tales involving the mental scars of rape, paternal abandonment and childhood sexual trauma would seem too... forced. Too dramatic. Yet Chabon manages to tell his stories without emotional hysteria, managing nonetheless to get a rich vein of meaning from his motley band of pathos-ridden misfits.

The last story here, the schlocky parodic horror-story 'In the Dark Mill', initially seems an anomaly, an odd tale to end a volume of weighty (if accessible) realist prose. Yet its mixture of odd comedy and frustrated goals are familiar from the preceding works. As for the motif of cannibalism- well, who can think of a more potent metaphor for the destructive yet symbiotic nature of human relationships?

Don't let the 'big' topics put you off- 'Werewolves in Their Youth' is a quick read, written in the elegant yet fast-paced style of Chabon's best work. It could well be a good introduction for those put off by the sheer length of Chabon's magnum opus, 'Kavalier and Klay'.

In short- this is a fantastic collection. Highly recommended.
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