He is generous to his characters, to his landscapes, to syntax, to words, to his readersÂ-there is a real joy in his workâ€¦.Both ambitious and lighthearted, the novel is a touching, gentle, comic meditation., As ever, Chabon is a performing magician.

people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author's buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience - something increasingly rare in our ADD age., Displays both his sense of ordinary people's inner lives and his rich, freewheeling proseâ€¦.A dense, flavorful book about race, class, politics, culture and sexuality, as expansive and ambitious as anything Chabon has published to dateâ€¦.An essential, unforgettable read., A magnificently crafted, exuberantly alive, emotionally lustrous, and socially intricate saga.Bubbling with lovingly curated knowledge about everything from jazz to pregnancyâ€¦Chabon's rhapsodically detailed, buoyantly plotted, warmly intimate cross-cultural tale of metamorphoses is electric with suspense, humor, and bebop dialogueâ€¦.An embracing, radiant masterpiece., Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. It's a feat that parlays Telegraph Avenue, with its diverse population, into an All-American novel, one of the great ones., A buoyant novel, written with the author's typical stylistic elegance and empathetic imaginationâ€¦.His prose is as energizing as ever, in part because he's always willing to try high-risk maneuvers up on the figurative balance beam., An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed storyâ€¦.

One of Chabon's great gifts is an ability to beguile us with prose that exudes warmth into seeing ourselves in others, to even know them as ourselves.

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