A Model World: And Other Stories (Panorama De Narrativ Ser.)

By: Michael Chabon

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Synopsis: A story collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, &“one of his generation&’s most eloquent new voices&” (The New York Times). With his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon announced his presence as a literary wunderkind of style and substance. A Model World and Other Stories only burnished his reputation as a distinctive prose stylist. In eleven elegant tales—some of them linked—by the New York Times–bestselling author of Telegraph Avenue and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon&’s singular characters hold tight to private dreams even as their closest relationships crumble. Five stories follow an anxious adolescent from the beach vacation where he learns of his parents&’ divorce to the confused days of a woefully misguided crush. Others find ex-lovers tormenting each other at an oceanside café, a washed-up professional baseball player attending a teammate&’s funeral, and a Pittsburgh disc jockey still pining for a woman who married him to get her American citizenship. &“Chabon moves across powerful emotional ground with certainty and delicacy,&” raves the Chicago Tribune. &“There are heartbreaking moments in these stories, but they are rendered so precisely, through incidents that capture the subtlest of feelings, that the reader can only smile at Chabon&’s skill.&” This ebook features a biography of the author.

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