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This study guide by BookRags.com, consists of approx. 58 pages of chapter summaries, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon.This comprehensive st… more

  A sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain.   Against the backdrop of the troubled 1960s, this coming-of-age novel weaves together a compelling psych... <a class="more" href="/books/detail/B004H3X4B8/#editorial-review">more</a>

A Best Book Of The Year Time • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Seattle TimesA shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for A… more

A voluptuous artists’ model is murdered, her mutilated body dumped in the central plaza of a colonial Mexican town. Inspector Hector Diaz’s murder investigation takes him deep into the town’s gringo expat colony, a modern Mexico corrupted b… more

It’s spring in Ivyland …Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny: something only a few notable contemporaries such as Jeff Vandermeer and Michael … more

A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murdersIn a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research… more

Sometimes it s hard for people to reconcile their lives in this chaotic, energized, nonsensical world with their faith in God. They want to know what s really true, what they can count on, what they can build their futures on. They want the… more

Don’t mess with Mac McKnight, even if you are the president of a South American republic. Mac has secretly recorded President Charlie Dávilos frolicking at a brothel. He has managed to get the video recording onto national television. Dávil… more

The crossover literary sensation…now in paperback! Through the lens of Kelly Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award- winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a tee… more

The immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist Michael Chabon delivers another bravura epic—a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families. This enhanced edition includes an origi… more

You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently Best American Short Stories. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have pas… more

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a “temporary” safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews o… more

Telegraph Avenue: The Enhanced Promo Single includes an extended excerpt of Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon (entitled Toronado) and a sampling of the special features that will be found in the full enhanced e-book edition of Telegraph Av… more

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is considered one of the most distinguished contemporary American novelists. Reading Michael Chabon, the first full-length volume on the writer, views his career as bridging the gap between liter… more

“Riveting and startling….So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers.” —Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This“Jessica Anya Blau…creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one of… more

And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this wickedly funny and ingenious novel … more

What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top?You’ll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world’s greatest books. As writers such… more

Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon s… more

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India,… more

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and amongst its practition… more