Kindle Daily Deal: Maps and Legends - 06-04-2012
Kindle Daily Deal for 06-04-2012
Title: Maps and Legends By Michael Chabon
About: Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon's collection of 16 essays champions the cause of sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, westerns, and other genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction. For Chabon, stories that give us great pleasure are, in many ways, our best art, the building blocks of our shared imagination.
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Rated: 4.5 of 5 Stars
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Chabon declares, “I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” But of course there’s much more to his vivid and mischievous literary manifesto in 16 parts than that. A writer of prodigious literary gifts, Chabon brings the velocity, verve, and emotional richness intrinsic to the best of short stories to his exceptionally canny and stirring essays. Musing over the various literary traditions he riffs on in his many-faceted novels, he concludes, “All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.” Chabon zestfully praises the many allures of genre fiction and celebrates writers, among them Vonnegut and Byatt, who infuse their fiction with “the Trickster spirit of genre-bending and stylistic play.” He offers a fresh and affecting take on Arthur Conan Doyle and pays witty and provocative tribute to M. R. James, a seemingly serene British author of superb horror and ghost stories. Norse myths, Will Eisner, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are all are interpreted with acuity and vigor. And then there are Chabon’s hilarious and puckish personal essays about his early writing misadventures and evolving sense of Jewishness. A writer so versatile he seems to be a master of disguises, Chabon provides invaluable keys to his frolicsome creativity and literary chutzpah in this truly entertaining collection. --Donna Seaman
Language: English
# of Pages: 203
File Size: 534 KB
Published by Open Road; 1st edition, on December 20, 2011.
Kindle Daily Deal for 06-04-2012
Title: Maps and Legends By Michael Chabon
About: Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon's collection of 16 essays champions the cause of sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, westerns, and other genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction. For Chabon, stories that give us great pleasure are, in many ways, our best art, the building blocks of our shared imagination.
Regular Price: $10.09
Discount: -$8.10
Deal Price: $1.99 (Today Only)
Rated: 4.5 of 5 Stars
Buy It Now or Browse Amazon.com.
More...
Chabon declares, “I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” But of course there’s much more to his vivid and mischievous literary manifesto in 16 parts than that. A writer of prodigious literary gifts, Chabon brings the velocity, verve, and emotional richness intrinsic to the best of short stories to his exceptionally canny and stirring essays. Musing over the various literary traditions he riffs on in his many-faceted novels, he concludes, “All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.” Chabon zestfully praises the many allures of genre fiction and celebrates writers, among them Vonnegut and Byatt, who infuse their fiction with “the Trickster spirit of genre-bending and stylistic play.” He offers a fresh and affecting take on Arthur Conan Doyle and pays witty and provocative tribute to M. R. James, a seemingly serene British author of superb horror and ghost stories. Norse myths, Will Eisner, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are all are interpreted with acuity and vigor. And then there are Chabon’s hilarious and puckish personal essays about his early writing misadventures and evolving sense of Jewishness. A writer so versatile he seems to be a master of disguises, Chabon provides invaluable keys to his frolicsome creativity and literary chutzpah in this truly entertaining collection. --Donna Seaman
Language: English
# of Pages: 203
File Size: 534 KB
Published by Open Road; 1st edition, on December 20, 2011.