David Montrose (review date 26 April 1991)
SOURCE: “Another Last Summer,” in Times Literary Supplement, April 26, 1991, p. 20.
[In the following review of A Model World, Montrose finds Chabon's short fiction well composed but unexceptional.]
Over recent years, certain hypesters in American publishing have managed to pass off a potential to achieve great things some day as great things already achieved. The result has been a string of young writers whose books possessed, the PR went, serious literary merit as well as impressive...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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