Gentlemen of the Road (ePub)
A Tale of Adventure
(Sprache: Englisch)
#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-The Washington Post Book World
They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman,...
"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-The Washington Post Book World
They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman,...
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#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-The Washington Post Book World
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 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. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution-on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of.
Praise for Gentlemen of the Road
"Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor."-San Francisco Chronicle
"[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist-the Updike-of his generation."-Time
"The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language."-The New York Times Book Review
"[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud."-Chicago Sun-Times
"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."-The Washington Post Book World
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 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. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution-on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of.
Praise for Gentlemen of the Road
"Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor."-San Francisco Chronicle
"[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist-the Updike-of his generation."-Time
"The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language."-The New York Times Book Review
"[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud."-Chicago Sun-Times
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically acclaimed film; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; The Final Solution: A Story of Detection; and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He is also the author of two short-story collections and a young adult novel, Summerland. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Chabon
- 2008, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House Worlds
- ISBN-10: 0307495655
- ISBN-13: 9780307495655
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.12.2008
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