Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
The marriage of a tale of legend to a story of adventure ends in a literary divorce.Chabon attempted to invoke a mini-mythology around his simple story about bandits. Unfortunately the technique distanced the reader from the action. Maybe that was his intention. I'm guessing it wasn't, having heard an interview with Chabon in which he admitted this was his first attempt at such a story and he didn't feel he knew what he was doing.