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ISBN-10: 0060823569
ISBN-13: 9780060823566
May 2007
Publisher: Harpercollins
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Set in a parallel past where the Jewish state has been built in Alaska instead of Israel, alcoholic detective Meyer Landsman investigates the mysterious death of an addict chess player, and discovers evidence of an American conspiracy that resulted in the plane crash death of his younger sister. His investigation is complicated by the involvement of his ex-wife, the chief of police, and also the upcoming expiration of the Alaskan Settlement Act after which the Jewish community will have to find a new home. Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon continues to prove his keen ability to blend genre fiction with literature, and his exhilarating imagination is on full dizzying display.
| Size | | Height: | 5.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Chabon takes full advantage of the unreality of the detective genre: His characters are deliberately cartoonish, his plot clogged, and his premise (a world in which displaced Jews have found refuge in Alaska rather than Israel) provocatively far-fetched. But it’s all outshined by his exuberant language."
"An immensely satisfying yarn."
(12/28/2007)
"Imagine a mutant strain of Dashiell Hammett crossed with Isaac Bashevis Singer.... A page turning noir, with a twist of Yiddish, that satisfies on many levels." (starred review)
(03/01/2007)
"[A]n act of fearless imagination, more evidence of the soaring talent of his previous genre-blender, the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY....[T]his book offers new evidence of his peerless storytelling and style."
(03/05/2007)
"[Michael Chabon's] novel is a stunning act of imagination....It is one of the best novels in English about what it means to be a Jew, and how it feels."
(05/28/2007)
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