"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 towards 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 POLICEMEN’S UNION. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around ‘serious’ literature in favour of a wide-ranging affection. MAPS AND LEGENDS 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.
His own fiction, meanw hile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post- collegiate desperation sparks his debut, `The Mysteries of Pittsb urgh' procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward `Wonder Bo ys' 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 Yidd ish Policemen's Union'.A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. Throughout, Chabon energetically argu es for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytellin g, rejecting the false walls around 'serious' literature in favou r of a wide-ranging affection. minor wear / marks / tanningMAPS & LE GENDS: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands - Mi chael ChabonFourth Estate, UK, 2010ISBN 9780007 289875mid-size pb, 250ppGOOD: minor wear / mark s / tanningA collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of `The Amaz ing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and `The Yiddish Policemen 's Union'.`Maps and Legends' is a love song in 16 par ts - 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.
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