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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Chabon, Michael
- ISBN
- 9780345502070
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Worlds
ISBN-10
0345502078
ISBN-13
9780345502070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109218435
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gentlemen of the Road : a Tale of Adventure [Title Page Only]
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Historical, Fantasy / Historical, Action & Adventure, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Praise for Michael Chabon "Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style." The New York Times "[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America." The Christian Science Monitor "[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity." The Washington Post Book World "Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading." Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "Chabon's writing is elegant and limber." San Francisco Chronicle "From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny's to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold." Bookmarks From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-- The Washington Post Book World They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can--as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution--on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. Praise for Gentlemen of the Road "Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation." -- Time "The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language." -- The New York Times Book Review "[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud." -- Chicago Sun-Times, #1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-- The Washington Post Book World They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can--as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution--on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. Praise for Gentlemen of the Road "Within a few pages I was happily tangled in Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation." -- Time "The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language." -- The New York Times Book Review " A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud." -- Chicago Sun-Times
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