Maps and Legends
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 Boy…
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- ISBN: 978-1-932416-89-3
- EAN: 9781932416893
- Produktnummer: 3209874
- Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
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