I think all they would have to do is put this excerpt on the back cover, and they would just hand Michael Chabon the Pulitzer for fiction. Again.
A man (Hertz) and his son (John Bear Berko) are talking after a long estrangement.
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‘”Don’t take that tone with me, John Bear,” the old man snaps. “I don’t care for it.”
“Tone?” Berko says, his voiced stacked like a measure of musical score with a half-dozen musical tones, a chamber ensemble of insolence, resentment, sarcasm, provocation, innocence, and surprise. “Tone?”
– Michael Chabon
3 responses to “An Excerpt from the Yiddish Policeman’s Union”
I’ve only read Mysteries of Pittsburgh, but I loved it. Chabon is a genius.
Yesterday a Barenaked Ladies song came up on my ipod and I thought, “I wonder if The Queen and Gary have any cruises lined up for the summer?”
Becs – I liked Mysteries of P. the least of the four I’ve now read. Adventures of K&C was the best. This one was second best, then Wonder Boys.David – no cruises, just a concert. And Gary’s boy-crush on Guster and his girl-crush on Jennifer Anniston might have to be satisfied by the Mayercraft Carrier John Mayer cruise in March…