A review by lvandyk
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

3.0

Grady Tripp: "I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny. Instead, here I was, forty-one years old, having left behind dozens of houses, spent a lot of money on vanished possessions and momentary entertainments, fallen desperately in and abruptly out of love with at least seventeen women, lost my mohter in infancy and my father to suicide, and everything about to change once more, with unforeseeable result.

And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.

The only part of my world that carried on, inalterable and permanent, was Wonder Boys."

[pg. 45...300 pages makes all the difference]