Michael Chabon

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 revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka …

Úžasná dobrodružství Kavaliera a Claye je román amerického spisovatele Michaele Chabona. Jde o mimořádně silný, citlivý příběh a zároveň o určitou mystifikaci - autor vytváří představu, že jeho hrdinové skutečně existovali. V roce 2001 Michael Chabon za tuto knihu získal Pulitzerovu cenu.

Úžasná dobrodružství Kavaliera a Claye je román amerického spisovatele Michaele Chabona. Jde o mimořádně silný, citlivý příběh a zároveň o určitou mystifikaci - autor vytváří představu, že jeho hrdinové skutečně existovali. V roce 2001 Michael Chabon za tuto knihu získal Pulitzerovu cenu.

“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving’s inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic …

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a novel by American author Michael Chabon. The story is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was Chabon's first novel, which he began writing as a 21-year-old undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh. He continued to work on it during his …

Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his …

Werewolves in Their Youth is a 1999 collection of short stories by Michael Chabon.