Pub Date: April 29, 2008
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Glossary, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.30" H x 8.00" L x 4.80" W ( 0.75 lbs) 464 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Historical | General | Literary | Mystery and Detective | HardBoiled | Alternative History | Fantasy | Science Fiction | Hard Science Fiction | Thrillers | Crime | Suspense
Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.
Brief description:
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
Review Quotes:
"A beautiful marriage of high and low: a novel with a literary mind and a populist heart." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Ambitiously imaginative . . . incandescent, distilling sad Jewish mysticism into pulpy prose . . . Equal parts Chaim Potok, Dashiell Hammett and Woody Allen." - Newsweek
"[P]ersuasively detailed . . . a gripping murder mystery and one of the most appealing detective heroes to come along since Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe . . . authoritatively and minutely imagined . . . " - New York Times
"Few writers can match the wit of Chabon's joyously colorful metaphors. And the fruits of his wild imagination (and buoyant sense of humor) come through on nearly every page." - Washington Post