‘Pittsburgh’: work ‘well worth reading’
MYSTERIES from Page 9
friend, Claire. At a crossroads, Art
anticipates his last free summer as
“a coming season of dilated time
and of women all in disarray” be
fore fall and adult life begin.
He finds, instead, a whole other
ball game: a summer job at Board
walk Books — a gleaming chain
store to whom “a good book was
still a plump little paperback that
knew how to sit in a beach bag and
keep its dirty mouth shut” — and
friends the likes of Cleveland — a
ne’er-do-well biker who wants to
eat the world. Art also soon falls in
love with Phlox, a troubled ex
punker/French major/romantic
post-’80s girl . . . and becomes
equally enamored of Arthur Le
comte, handsome, slick, sly, per
fectly charming — and gay.
“The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”
teems with words.
Chabon’s style is simply liquid.
Notsince Jane Austen have so many
phrases and clauses been woven
together so effortlessly. Describing
his current relationship with his
father, Art relates, “We’d just come
to the end of a period of silence and
ill will — a year I’d spent in love
with and in the same apartment as
an odd, fragile girl whom he had
loathed, on sight, with a frankness
and fury that were not at all like
him.” Instead of boggling the
reader, Chabon’s words float
lightly and exuberantly on air,
‘‘guiding characters and reader
alike through a strange labyrinth
with astonishing skill,” as critic
Elizabeth Spencer wrote.
Happily, unlike some of
Chabon’s contemporaries’ first
novels, “Pittsburgh” doesn’t circle
around itself in a tightly closed
world only accessible to a privi
leged upper elite. Instead of daz
zling (and subsequently alienating)
readers with Never-never Land
glimpses into the fast-lane lives of
“Bright Lights, Big City,” “Less
Than Zero” and “Slaves of New
York,” “Pittsburgh” bypasses Yup
pies-in-training and “Don’t-you
wish-you-were-here” attitudes to
concentrate on characters. And al
though the novel deals with rather
tricky subjects at times, Chabon
doesn’t apologize for his characters
or pull any punches with them.
Furthermore, we are able to care
about them, not the least because
Chabon infuses them with life
while still maintaining a rather
ironic detachment from them.
Forget that this is a first novel.
Forget about any so-called literary
“Brat Pack” of authors. Forget all
the advance gushing in Newsweek
On Campus. ‘The Mysteries of
Pittsburgh” stands all by itself as a
remarkable work well worth read
ing and Michael Chabon as an au
thor to look out for.
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