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Original Title:	Werewolves in Their Youth
ISBN:	0312254385 (ISBN13: 9780312254384)
Edition Language:	English

Werewolves in Their Youth Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Werewolves in Their Youth
Author	:	Michael Chabon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	January 2nd 2000 by Picador (first published January 19th 1999)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Contemporary

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The title did not attract me at all - I am not into werewolves or zombies or ghosts or whatever. However I was told that the title wasn't what the book was about, but I still approached it with much reservation.Surprise. It is a series of short stories that are extremely well written and of the highest quality. Only the last story really falls into the zombie style and I certainly found it rather ridiculous - perhaps it would make a useful TV drama for those enamoured by zombies.

Michael Chabon is a darling of literary critics, but I read Werewolves in Their Youth in spite of that. The book contains nine short stories of moderate length, most concerning families in varying degrees of dysfunction. Failed marriages feature prominently in these stories as does sexual violence. His characters are mainly sympathetic in spite of their general incompetence. One particularly engaging story, The Harris Fetko Story, is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut, but lacking his genius. Another,

These days I come to short story collections cautiously.I dont blame the stories. Its my own fault.Six years ago, as I was working on my Ph.D., my advisor and I decided that in order to make myself more marketable to Departments of English in various schools I should specialize in something literature-based. This was an intimidating thought. My undergrad degree was in English Education, my Masters degree was in Language, Literacy, and Composition, and even though I had ten years of teaching high

Michael Chabon's, Werewolves in Their Youth, is a collection of nine short stories where divorce often plays a leading role and often not a pretty one. All of the narrators are male, frequently but not always, young men. I'm not sure why, but my favorite stories had children in them, although sometimes these children had a tiny and nonspeaking role: the title story, Son of the Wolfman; Green's Book; The Harris Fetko Story; and if a 17-year-old counts as a child, In the Black Mill. These

Everything that makes Michael Chabon one of my favourite novelists is found in these short stories. Tales of hard luck characters standing upon the precipice of bad decisions have a strong pull on my sympathies as a reader. People transformed by life events that simply spiralled out of control. Chabon's world is populated by marriages, business ventures, real estate deals and professional sports careers on the skids. Reasonably intelligent people unable to pull themselves out of disaster. They

I'm only rating this four stars due to a few flat stories in the collection (house Hunting and The Harris Fetko Story). The best of the bunch is Son of Wolfman, a tale with precisely the correct lilt of redemption at the end. If this story doesn't lift your heart, read it again and again. My other favorites were the title story and The Black Mill.In all these tales, Chabon manages to pack tiny corkscrews of philosophy and tangential notions into the prose. He uses quirky metaphors that pull the

s/werewolves/douchenozzles(fixed that for you)(read it anyway, Chabon tells a decent story)