A MODEL WORLD AND OTHER STORIES
by Michael Chabon
Morrow; 207 pages; $18.95
There was an appealing, puppy-dog quality to Michael Chabon's very youthful first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; and in this likable second book of fiction, the strongest impression is still of a healthy new talent clowning around and delighting itself. The stories for the most part are unserious to the point of being silly. In the title piece a grad student cheerfully and successfully plagiarizes an old doctoral dissertation about climatology in Antarctica. That has little to do with a strange dinner party that is suffused with adulterous...
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