Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
This novel made a great, and greatly under appreciated, movie, and I wanted to see whether the book is equally good.
It is.
The performances do a remarkable job of capturing Chabon’s voice, and the screenplay stays quite close to the novel, especially in the crucial opening chapters. The differences between novel and film are often subtle — changing a black jacket to white, adding an extra female character, cutting a transitional episode.