Michael Chabon
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Michael Chabon
- 2008 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2007 Nebula winner
- 2008 Campbell 2nd
- 2008 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2007 Hammett nominee
- Score: 40.58
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a “temporary” safe haven in the Alaskan panhandle, created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just murdered his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. When word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
- 2001 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 2001 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 2001 Spectrum shortlist
- 2000 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 2000 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 34.51
It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn’s own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that…
Michael Chabon
Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League gathers to play baseball on a perfectly manicured lawn, and the sun is always shining in a flawless blue sky. However, the small beings known as ferishers, who ensure this perfect weather, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero—a baseball star, in fact—to vanquish their foe.
The ferishers recruit Ethan Feld, possibly the worst ballplayer in the history of the league, as their chosen leader. No one is more surprised than Ethan at their choice, but their faith spurs him on.
Accompanied…
Wonder Boys: A Novel
Michael Chabon
In Wonder Boys we meet James Leer, a troubled young “wonder boy” whose obsession with Hollywood suicides leads him to commit a pair of startling crimes. Thereby his destiny becomes entangled with that of his writing teacher, Grady Tripp, a former prodigy whose penchant for self-destruction is exceeded only by the twenty-six hundred pages of his unfinished magnum opus, Wonder Boys—a leviathan of a novel that is devouring his life. Joined by Terry Crabtree, Grady’s editor—another onetime boy wonder whose appetite for the bizarre has derailed a promising…
