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Maps and Legends

 
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Maps and Legends

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Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen 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 an 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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EAN/ISBN:
9781932416893
Medium:
Bound edition
Number of pages:
222
Publication date:
2008-04-28
Publisher:
Mcsweeneys
Languages:
english
EAN/ISBN:
9781932416893
Medium:
Bound edition
Number of pages:
222
Publication date:
2008-04-28
Publisher:
Mcsweeneys
Languages:
english

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