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Maps and Legends

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Maps and Legends

by MICHAEL CHABON

McSweeney's | December 1, 2008 | Hardcover

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.
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    Easy on the eyes!

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    3 years ago

    I have to be honest and admit that I initially picked up this book because I liked the way it looked. I did what we are taught never to do - I judged a book by it's cover! The hardcover is wrapped by three layers of paper to comprise the layout of the design. A very cool innovative style that was entirely relevant to the book's subject matter.

    Michael Chabon is a fantastic writer, but he doesn't need me to tell him that - he's already been declared as one of the best American writers by several notable publications. Wonder Boys is one of my favourite books; as is, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

    In Maps and Legends, Chabon deconstructs his own work and attempts to demystify the notion that genres need to be held to a confinement of style. I highly enjoyed all of the essays and feel I've become a bigger fan of his work as a consequence.

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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.

About the Author

An American novelist and short-story writer, Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C., in 1963. The son of a pediatrician and a lawyer, Chabon grew up in Columbia, Maryland, and spent his summers with his father in Pittsburgh. Chabon received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, and went on to get his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Irvine. Chabon found success at the age of twenty-four, when William Morrow publishing house offered him $155,000, a near-record sum, for the rights to his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which was Chabon's thesis in graduate school. After Pittsburgh became a national best-seller, Chabon began writing a series of short stories about a little boy dealing with his parents' divorce. The stories, which in part appeared in The New Yorker and G.Q., were bound together in 1991 into a volume titled A Model World And Other Stories. Chabon has also written articles for The New York Times and Vogue. Chabon lives in Los Angeles.

Hardcover

5.88 x 8.74 x 1.06 in

December 1, 2008

McSweeney's

English


1932416897
9781932416893

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