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The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion--in a blue-collar city where the mundane can sometimes appear almost magical.

Ein alter Mann auf dem Sterbebett beichtet seinem Enkel die unglaubliche Geschichte seines Lebens. In seinem gefeierten Roman erzählt Michael Chabon die unglaublichen Abenteuer seines unkonventionellen Großvaters, der einst Wernher von Braun in Deutschland jagte und ein in vielerlei Hinsicht leidenschaftliches Leben führte. Während in Deutschland die Mauer fällt, sitzt Michael am Bett seines Großvaters, der in der letzten Woche seines Lebens p...

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È il 1989 quando Michael Chabon, pochi mesi dopo aver pubblicato il suo primo romanzo, I misteri di Pittsburgh, raggiunge la casa della madre, a Oakland, per far visita al nonno gravemente malato. Reso loquace dai potenti antidolorifici, la memoria più nitida, affilata e urgente per l'imminenza della morte, in una settimana l'uomo dispiega davanti al giovane scrittore una storia rimasta sepolta, quasi dimenticata per una vita intera, un fiume ...

For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season. Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage Western shirts or Hermès neckties, ” sat idly by, s...

These humorous and insightful essays about modern fatherhood from the acclaimed American novelist centre around a touching essay about Chabon reluctantly accompanying his fashion-conscious son to Paris Men's Fashion Week, ultimately achieving a new respect for the boy's prodigious nonconformity.

Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction or, for that matter, read one. His answer is simple and simultaneously profound: “a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader.” Likewise, afterwords—they are all about the “pure love” of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, as readers make their way through these pages, an argument emerges about the profound interrelation between reading and writing, an...

In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about books—age-old classics as well as his own—that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the literature that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading.Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction or, for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon’s answer is simple and ...

»Ein Wortmagier, ein Spieler in allen Genres, einer der es versteht, eine gute Geschichte zu erzählen« Die Welt. Michael Chabon taucht in diesem Abenteuerroman klassischer Provenienz tief ein in die Kaukasusregion des 10. Jahrhunderts und schafft mit Zelikman und Amram zwei liebenswerte, lebenskluge Schurken, die dem Sohn des ermordeten Königs helfen sollen, den rechtmäßigen Nachfolger auf den Thron zu bringen. »Fein sind die Ironien, fein i...

»Ein Wortmagier, ein Spieler in allen Genres, einer der es versteht, eine gute Geschichte zu erzählen« Die Welt. Meyer Landsman vom Morddezernat hat Probleme. Seine Ehe ist am Ende, er trinkt und steckt auch beruflich in einer Sackgasse: In dem billigen Hotel, in dem er wohnt, wurde ein Mord begangen. Das Opfer ist ein ehemaliges Schach-Wunderkind, und Landsman beginnt mit den Untersuchungen. Doch als von ganz oben die Anweisung ergeht, dass ...

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The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man's sexual identity.

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These humorous and insightful essays about modern fatherhood from the acclaimed American novelist centre around a touching essay about Chabon reluctantly accompanying his fashion-conscious son to Paris Men's Fashion Week, ultimately achieving a new respect for the boy's prodigious nonconformity.

Beloved American author Michael Chabon has golden age superhero the Escapist (as conceived within the fictional world of Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay") cross paths with Will Eisner's World War Two-era hero the Spirit, written and illustrated here by Eisner himself.