In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood, moving subtly and incisively across this powerful emotional ground.

 Wry and whimsical, but also with intellectual depth, A MODEL WORLD is a collection of eleven wonderful stories about growing up and growing wise.

 In 'S Angel' a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. 'Smoke' takes us to a baseball catcher's funeral, where one of the mourners - a has-been pitcher - confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book, 'The Lost World', is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents' bitter divorce.

 Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America's most celebrated writers.

A Model World

In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister?Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.

The Final Solution - A Story of Detection

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature-age-old classics as well as his own-that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon's answer is simple and simultaneously profound: "a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader." Likewise, afterwords-they are all about shared pleasure, about the "pure love" of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether it's the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabon's life (Ray Bradbury's "The Rocket Man"); a celebration of "the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars" (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James, ironically "the happiest of men"); the recognition that the worlds of Wes Anderson's films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality (as is all art); Chabon's own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to "spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices." Galaxies away from academic or didactic, Bookends celebrates wonder-and like the copy of The Phantom Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again-it is a treasured gift.

Bookends - Collected Intros and Outros

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.

Des garçons épatants

Après le succès du Club des policiers yiddish, le nouveau roman de Michael Chabon : une aventure de cape et d'épée loufoque au temps de l'empire Khazar.Ils font la paire : Zelikman, médecin mélancolique originaire des brumes de Ratisbonne à l'esprit dangereusement acéré ; Amram, ex-mercenaire, Noir géant à la langue aussi affûtée que la hache qui ne le quitte jamais. Frères de coeur, compagnons d'armes, ils tracent leur route de déracinés à travers les monts du Caucase, vers 950 après J.-C. Bretteurs, voleurs à gages et mystificateurs, ils soulagent les crédules de leur argent. Familiers des mauvais pas et des coups fourrés, ils ont laissé maints ennemis dans leur sillage, goûté leur part de blessures et réussi d'innombrables sorties précipitées en des circonstances hostiles.Rien qui les ait préparés cependant à se transformer en escortes et défenseurs d'un prince de l'empire Khazar : Filaq. Son pouvoir ayant été usurpé par un oncle cruel, ce jeune héritier inexpérimenté brûle de reconquérir le trône qui lui revient. Un tel projet nécessite une ruse sans fond, une audace sanglante et une folle témérité. Sans parler d'une armée. Zelikman et Amram peuvent au moins apporter les premières. Mais ces bandits de grands chemins sont-ils prêts à devenir les généraux d'une révolution de grande envergure menée par un damoiseau mal embouché ? Une chose est sûre, le chemin de la réussite est pavé de guerriers et de catins, de vils empereurs et d'éléphants extraordinaires, de mascarades, de jeux d'épées, et des péripéties dont sont faites les plus grandes aventures.

Les Princes Vagabonds

"Le checkpoint incarne l'occupation, il la symbolise, il la manifeste. Chaque passage rappelle aux Palestiniens de H2 [à Hébron] qu'ils sont soumis au pouvoir des militaires, qu'ils sont occupés ; chaque passage appuie là où ça fait mal. Comme un point de contention sur un corps congestionné, une pression sur un corps douloureux, sur un corps qui déborde." Maylis de Kerangal. 50 ans après la guerre des Six-Jours et l'occupation de la Cisjordanie par Israël, que signifie, au quotidien, vivre dans les Territoires occupés ? Ayelet Waldman et Michael Chabon se sont associés à l'ONG israélienne "Breaking the Silence" pour demander à 24 brillants écrivains du monde entier de se rendre dans les Territoires occupés afin de témoigner du quotidien de ceux et de celles qui y vivent, et de réfléchir, de l'intérieur, au conflit israélo-arabe. Au travers de leurs courts récits, poignants, incisifs, tendres ou révoltés, on entre dans les villes occupées, dans les maisons, on partage les inquiétudes des Palestiniens, leurs combats, leurs humiliations, leurs difficultés à se déplacer, à étudier, à avoir une vie sociale. Ce livre est aussi un état des lieux des guerres qui déchirent deux peuples, des tensions historiques, géopolitiques et économiques, et d'une politique gouvernementale israélienne toujours plus invasive. 26 histoires qui racontent le coût humain de l'occupation.

Un royaume d'olives et de cendres - 26 écrivains, 50 ans de Territoires occupés

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 Includes an original theme song, 10 designs from the artist Stainboy, and a custom-made map of Telegraph Avenue. Also includes audio excerpts read by Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) and a video interview with the author.

 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.

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The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as critics and readers have come to expect. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces: MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as -- simply because -- it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played -- on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key -- by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS is destined to become a classic.

Manhood for Amateurs - The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

Après le succès du Club des policiers yiddish, le nouveau roman de Michael Chabon : une aventure de cape et d'épée loufoque au temps de l'empire Khazar.Princes ou bandits, ils font la paire : Zelikman, médecin mélancolique à l'esprit dangereusement acéré, et Amram, géant noir à la langue aussi affûtée que la hache qui ne le quitte jamais. Vivant de subterfuges, ils tracent leur route à travers les monts du Caucase, vers l'an 950. Rien ne les a cependant préparés à se transformer en défenseurs d'un prince de l'Empire khazar, un jeune héritier inexpérimenté brûlant de reconquérir son trône. Un tel projet nécessite une ruse sans limites et une folle témérité. Zelikman et Amram ne manquent ni de l'une ni de l'autre. Mais sont-ils prêts à sacrifier leur insouciance pour devenir les généraux d'une révolution d'envergure ?Fidèles à la grande tradition des romans et du cinéma d'aventures, Les Princes vagabonds offrent un irrésistible bouillonnement de rebondissements, de suspense et d'humour, dans le sillage de très pittoresques héros.

Les princes vagabonds

Un très grand romancier américain.  Transfuge.
Trois paumés magnifiques sont les héros de cette histoire mise en scène avec maestria par l'auteur des Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier & Clay, lauréat du prix Pulitzer. Grady Tripp, professeur de lettres en mal d'inspiration, doit remettre un manuscrit à son éditeur alors même que sa femme - la troisième en titre - le quitte et que sa maîtresse lui annonce être enceinte. Des aléas dont son éditeur, Teddy Crabtree, n'a que faire. Abonné aux sensations fortes, il veut seulement récupérer le livre. James Leer, enfin, fervent disciple de Tripp et petit génie incompris qui cultive une attirance morbide pour les suicides de stars, doit être empêché d'attenter lui-même à ses jours...
Parvenir à marier les ressorts de la comédie la plus efficace et la peinture réaliste de ces petits drames de la vie qui font la condition humaine, tel est le tour de force littéraire de Michael Chabon dans son deuxième roman, adapté au cinéma par Curtis Hanson avec Michael Douglas dans le rôle principal.

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 summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures—from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories—in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can—as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there—along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of—will be much more than half the fun.

Cet été-là, le dernier qu'il doit passer sur le campus de l'université de Pittsburgh, dans la chaleur moite de la grande cité américaine, Art Bechstein boit, fume, écoute de la bonne musique, passe la nuit avec un homme qu'il aime et apprend à en aimer un autre si fort qu'il ne lui viendrait jamais à l'esprit de coucher avec lui. Entre, d'un côté, le triangle amoureux qu'il forme avec le dandy Arthur Lecomte et la jolie Phlox Lombardi, et, de l'autre, son amitié naissante avec le charismatique criminel en devenir Cleveland Arning, le narrateur Art Bechstein magnifie amis et amours jusqu'à en faire des légendes vivantes. Mais pourra-t-il longtemps repousser son inévitable collision avec le monde en apparence si raisonnable et si respectable des adultes ? Avec la publication des Mystères de Pittsburgh, écrit en 1987 pour son mémoire de maîtrise alors que Michael Chabon étudiait à l'université Irvine de Californie, les lettres américaines ont trouvé leur nouveau prodige, futur auteur du prix Pulitzer Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier & Clay.

Les mystères de Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon, né le 24 mai 1963 à Washington DC aux États-Unis, est un écrivain, essayiste et scénariste américain.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chabon

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