Maps and Legends

图书信息

作者	Michael Chabon
出版社	HarperPress
ISBN	9780007440115
出版时间	2012-10-02
字数	33.1万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,其他

读书简介

A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. MAPS AND LEGENDS is a love song in sixteen parts – a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around ‘serious’ literature in favour of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH; procrastination and doubt reveal the way towards WONDER BOYS; a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY; and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

TRICKSTER IN A SUIT OF LIGHTS

MAPS AND LEGENDS

FAN FICTIONS

RAGNAROK BOY

DUST

KIDS’ STUFF

THE KILLER HOOK

DARK ADVENTURE

THE OTHER JAMES

LANDSMAN OF THE LOST

THOUGHTS ON THE DEATH OF WILL EISNER

MY BACK PAGES

DIVING INTO THE WRECK

THE RECIPE FOR LIFE

IMAGINARY HOMELANDS

GOLEMS I HAVE KNOWN, OR: WHY MY ELDER SON’S MIDDLE NAME IS NAPOLEON

Acknowledgments

Also by Michael Chabon

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About the Author

Meet Michael Chabon

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Have You Read?

Index with Recommended Reading

Copyright

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