A Model World

Author:   Michael Chabon
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:  

9781841153629


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 March 2008
Format:   Paperback
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A Model World


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In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood, moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness. Written with wryness, whimsy and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise. In ‘S Angel’ a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. ‘Smoke’ takes us to a baseball catcher’s funeral, where one of the mourners – a has-been pitcher – confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book ‘The Lost World’ is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents’ bitter divorce. Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America’s most celebrated writers.

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Author:   Michael Chabon
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   HarperPerennial
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.150kg
ISBN:  

9781841153629


ISBN 10:   1841153621
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 March 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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'Poignant, affecting, witty, wrenching, a terrific writer.' Washington Post 'Establishes Chabon as one of his generation's most eloquent voices.' New York Times Praise for 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union': 'His almost ecstatically smart and sassy new novel!Chabon is a spectacular writer!a language magician. He has you laughing out loud, applauding the fun he has with language and the way he takes the task of a writer and runs delighted rings around it.' Guardian 'Michael Chabon's brilliant new novel starts with a bang!It hums with humour. It buzzes with gags!the accumulated reading experience is one of admiration, close to awe, at the vigour of Chabon's imagination!a hilarious, antic whirl of a novel.' Sunday Times 'It makes film noir look like film blanc by comparison.' Arena Praise for 'The Wonder Boys': 'The natural exuberance and extravagance of Chabon's writing is matched by dazzling wit.' Sunday Telegraph ' Wonder Boys is a superb creation, a raucously comic yet deeply lyrical work.' Sunday Times Praise for 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay': 'An adventure story that keeps you up until 4 am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home.' Observer 'Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling.' Times Literary Supplement 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers.' Time Out 'A novel of towering achievement.' New York Times 'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal.' Washington Post


'Poignant, affecting, witty, wrenching, a terrific writer.' Washington Post 'Establishes Chabon as one of his generation's most eloquent voices.' New York Times Praise for 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union': 'His almost ecstatically smart and sassy new novel!Chabon is a spectacular writer!a language magician. He has you laughing out loud, applauding the fun he has with language and the way he takes the task of a writer and runs delighted rings around it.' Guardian 'Michael Chabon's brilliant new novel starts with a bang!It hums with humour. It buzzes with gags!the accumulated reading experience is one of admiration, close to awe, at the vigour of Chabon's imagination!a hilarious, antic whirl of a novel.' Sunday Times 'It makes film noir look like film blanc by comparison.' Arena Praise for 'The Wonder Boys': 'The natural exuberance and extravagance of Chabon's writing is matched by dazzling wit.' Sunday Telegraph ' Wonder Boys is a superb creation, a raucously comic yet deeply lyrical work.' Sunday Times Praise for 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay': 'An adventure story that keeps you up until 4 am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home.' Observer 'Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling.' Times Literary Supplement 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers.' Time Out 'A novel of towering achievement.' New York Times 'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal.' Washington Post


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Author Website:   http://www.michaelchabon.com

Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories, ‘A Model World' and ‘Werewolves in their Youth', the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh', ‘Wonder Boys', ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay', ‘The Yiddish Policemen's Union' and ‘Telegraph Avenue', and the non-fiction books ‘Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs'. ‘Wonder Boys' has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and their four children.

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Author Website:   http://www.michaelchabon.com

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