Times Critics’ Top Books of 2016 - The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani, Dwight Garner, Jennifer Senior and Janet Maslin
Chabon is one of the most gifted prose stylists at work today, and he writes here with both easy lyricism and caffeinated ardor, capturing his hero’s love affair with a French refugee (who becomes his wife) and his growing obsession with the moon shot and the space race.
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