Chabon, Michael | Alexandra Lange (review date 15 February 1999)
Alexandra Lange (review date 15 February 1999)
SOURCE: Lange, Alexandra. Review of Werewolves in Their Youth, by Michael Chabon. New York (15 February 1999): 59.
[In the following review of Werewolves in Their Youth, Lange faults the volume for its weak characters, ineffective plots, and generally lifeless stories.]
Werewolves in Their Youth, Michael Chabon's new story collection, reads as if he sat down and thought, What's the worst thing one could do? Betray a childhood friend, steal from an ex-wife's grandmother, sleep with the baby-sitter? He's got them all covered. But his weak-willed characters never go through with their emotional crimes, so the book is filled with almost-disasters. Only “That Was Me” comes to life. Its protagonists, a couple locked in an uneasy battle of wills, have an opaque complexity that passes for nature. “‘What's the story with Olivier?’” he asks her, of her proposed...
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