- Grandparent and child, Family life, FICTION, Literary
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and nostalgic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Catedral, HarperLuxe, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780008189860
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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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