A Model World

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453234112

<DIV><B>A story collection from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of <I>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay</I>, &ldquo;one of his generation&rsquo;s most eloquent new voices&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> With his first novel, <I>The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, </I>Michael Chabon announced his presence as a literary wunderkind of style and substance. <I>A Model World and Other Stories </I>only burnished his reputation as a distinctive prose stylist.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In eleven elegant tales&mdash;some of them linked&mdash;by the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Telegraph Avenue</I> and <I>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay</I>, Chabon&rsquo;s singular characters hold tight to private dreams even as their closest relationships crumble. Five stories follow an anxious adolescent from the beach vacation where he learns of his parents&rsquo; divorce to the confused days of a woefully misguided crush. Others find ex-lovers tormenting each other at an oceanside caf&eacute;, a washed-up professional baseball player attending a teammate&rsquo;s funeral, and a Pittsburgh disc jockey still pining for a woman who married him to get her American citizenship.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Chabon moves across powerful emotional ground with certainty and delicacy,&rdquo; raves the <I>Chicago Tribune</I>. &ldquo;There are heartbreaking moments in these stories, but they are rendered so precisely, through incidents that capture the subtlest of feelings, that the reader can only smile at Chabon&rsquo;s skill.&rdquo; <DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV><I>This ebook features a biography of the author.</I></DIV></DIV>