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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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Author
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Michael Chabon.
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Publisher
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Harper Perennial
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8
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5.25
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0.6
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ISBN
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9780061650925
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Pages/Publication Date
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210/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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20235
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Description
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"[In this collection of essays, Michael] Chabon declares, 'I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.' But of course there's much more to his vivid and mischievous literary manifesto in 16 parts than that. A writer of prodigious literary gifts, Chabon brings the velocity, verve, and emotional richness intrinsic to the best of short stories to his exceptionally canny and stirring essays. Musing over the various literary traditions he riffs on in his many-faceted novels, he concludes, 'All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.' Chabon zestfully praises the many allures of genre fiction and celebrates writers, among them Vonnegut and Byatt, who infuse their fiction with 'the Trickster spirit of genre-bending and stylistic play.' He offers a fresh and affecting take on Arthur Conan Doyle and pays witty and provocative tribute to M.R. James, a seemingly serene British author of superb horror and ghost stories. Norse myths, Will Eisner, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road are all are interpreted with acuity and vigor. And then there are Chabon's hilarious and puckish personal essays about his early writing misadventures and evolving sense of Jewishness. A writer so versatile he seems to be a master of disguises, Chabon provides invaluable keys to his frolicsome creativity and literary chutzpah in this truly entertaining collection."—Booklist
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