

- Jewish Refugees, Private investigators, Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Older men
xl, 1016 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
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- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 131
- Publisher
- BBC Audiobooks America, Sound Library, R. Laffont
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780007196036
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Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, *Wonder Boys* (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,* a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel *The Yiddish Policemen's Union,* an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel *Gentlemen of the Road* appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. His novel *Te
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