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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Bavel, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781857024050
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“The first real writer I ever knew was a man who did all of his work under the name of August Van Zorn.”
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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