- Fiction, United States, Social life and customs, Life change events
Le divorce, l'abandon et la nostalgie sont au coeur des neufs nouvelles qui composent ce recueil, excepté la dernière qui fait un clin d'oeil à la "pulp fiction". L'auteur choisit le ton de la comédie et de l'ironie mordante pour ces récits.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Picador USA, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9781857029857
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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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