"Meyers (English, Southwestern U.) offers what can be described as a handbook for readers of contemporary novelist Michael Chabon. The book covers Chabon's life and work, including his journeys into adventure and detective fiction. As a reference guide, the book will help readers keep up with his complex plots and to draw the thematic connections common to his major novels, and to see his fiction as commentary on modern masculinity and Jewish identity. The book is intended for book club members and high school and college students." - Reference & Research Book News