In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood – moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness. Written with wryness, whimsy, and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of 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.
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Michael Chabon
Nascido em Washington em 1963, graduou-se pela Universidade de Pittsburg e é mestre em escrita criativa na Universidade da Califórnia, em Irvine. Estreou na literatura com o romance Mysteries of Pittsburg (1988) e desde então publicou, entre outros, o livro de ensaios Maps and legends e os romances Garotos incríveis (transformado em filme em 2000), As incríveis aventuras de Kavalier e Clay (prêmio Pulitzer de 2001), Usina de sonhos e Gentlemen of the Road. É considerado um dos autores mais originais e talentosos da atual literatura norte-americana. É casado com a também escritora Ayelet Waldman.
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