Read it. Loved it. Pretty sure I said so here.
Chabon's ability to bring a fictional alternate society (An
"Alaskan Jewish" culture with fifty years' worth of
clashes/assimilation on-going with the local natives and many
immigrants from the lower 48 laid out as a back-drop from a
classic hard-boiled police procedural, wow, what a concept!)
roaring to life, to paint with such delightfully authorative
broad brush strokes, well, it's truly the work of a
master.
I just finished his latest, GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, for which
he says the working title was "Jews With Swords." As a kid
who cut his literary teeth on Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert
E. Howard, I loved this tribute to high historical adventure
fiction.
And it had a delightfully hard-boiled ending, too.
All the Best-
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: cptpipes2000
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:30 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Recent Read: The Yiddish
Policeman's Union
I recently enjoyed Michael Chabon's The Yiddish
Policeman's Union, an
alternate history slash crime novel. Anyone else
read this yet?
Chabon's detective story was not a send-up of the
genre, which I
appreciated and should have expected following
his previous book, The
Final Solution
Moving on now to Loren D. Estleman's Gas
City.
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