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MAPS AND LEGENDS
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| By: |
Michael Chabon |
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Hardback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1932416897 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781932416893 |
| Publisher: |
MCSWEENEY'S PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
28 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens a work of literary non-fiction--a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing. |
| Synopsis: |
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts ? a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward Wonder Boys; a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into The Yiddish Policeman's Union. |
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US |
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McSweeney's Publishing |
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Non-returnable |
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