![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, the topic is literary form, like the ghost story and the epic fantasy. In these intriguing essays, he strolls through this netherworld, taking up topics from golems to suburbia. Michael Chabon is fascinated with life "along the borderlands," those perilous regions between and beyond what we claim to know. "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. 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. ![]()
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