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In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. 40,000 first printing.
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PraisegMichael Chabon
About Wonder Boys
"Mr. Chabon is that rare thing, an intelligent lyrical writer." —The New York Times Book Review
"The young star of American letters . . . a writer not only of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity."
—Jonathan Yardley,
The Washington Post Book World
"Wonder Boys caught me up and carried me along like some kind of flying carpet. . . . Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading." —Alan Cheuse,
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
"[A] beguiling and wickedly smart novel."
—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
About Werewolves in Their Youth
"A loving craftsman and the author of superb, seemingly alchemically rendered sentences, Chabon has been producing pitch-perfect, at times even dazzling, fiction."
—Michael Carroll, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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About Wonder Boys
"Mr. Chabon is that rare thing, an intelligent lyrical writer." —The New York Times Book Review
"The young star of American letters . . . a writer not only of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity."
—Jonathan Yardley,
The Washington Post Book World
"Wonder Boys caught me up and carried me along like some kind of flying carpet. . . . Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading." —Alan Cheuse,
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
"[A] beguiling and wickedly smart novel."
—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
About Werewolves in Their Youth
"A loving craftsman and the author of superb, seemingly alchemically rendered sentences, Chabon has been producing pitch-perfect, at times even dazzling, fiction."
—Michael Carroll, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Michael Chabon's works of fiction include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, and Were-wolves in Their Youth. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Playboy and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children.
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- EditoreRandom House
- Data di pubblicazione2000
- ISBN 10 0679450041
- ISBN 13 9780679450047
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine656
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