The Yiddish Policemen's Union, limited edition
 A novel sure to delight: A hard boiled homicide detective, beaten by the world, finds himself awoken, bottle in hand, by the manager of the flea bag motel where he now finds himself in residence. Another resident, a junkie, has been murdered, bullet to [... more]
$150.00
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Score: The Yiddish Policemen's Union is one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. While it certainly has merits as a mystery, it is the characters, ghostly images of diaspora, and the plight of all people without a homeland that make this [... more]
$26.95
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Amazon.com Review: Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand [... more]
$34.95
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union CD: A Novel
Score: The Yiddish Policemen's Union is one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. While it certainly has merits as a mystery, it is the characters, ghostly images of diaspora, and the plight of all people without a homeland that make this [... more]
$39.95
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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
The Road Not Taken (2 and 1/2 stars): There's a lot of fun in "Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure". Michael Chabon, author of the well known and well written The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, wants to take us down a path of [... more]
$24.95
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Summerland
Amazon.com Review: In Summerland, his first novel for young readers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts an American Narnia. Inspired by Lewis and Tolkien, he's created his own magical landscape on which to paint a sweeping fantasy [... more]
$22.95
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Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories
Amazon.com Review: Wonder boy Michael Chabon's second collection of stories tackles the American family in all its tragic and often frighteningly funny dysfunction. In the title story, a self-professed "King of the Retards" tries to distance [... more]
$13.00
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Maps and Legends
The key to the landscape of imagination: This is the first book that collects novelist Michael Chabon's essays originally written for a variety of publications and audiences across a decade or longer. It is a product of the Dave Eggers/McSweeney's [... more]
$24.00
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union LP
Score: The Yiddish Policemen's Union is one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. While it certainly has merits as a mystery, it is the characters, ghostly images of diaspora, and the plight of all people without a homeland that make this [... more]
$26.95
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Summerland: A Novel: Summerland
Amazon.com Review: In Summerland, his first novel for young readers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts an American Narnia. Inspired by Lewis and Tolkien, he's created his own magical landscape on which to paint a sweeping fantasy [... more]
$8.95
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel (P.S.)
The bisexual coming of age book: This is can be a very painful book to read. All of the characters are larger than life except the women. Or should I say the woman, the female love interest who turns out to be a cardboard doofus. All the cool guys are [... more]
$13.95
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Wonder Boys
"Why did you keep writing this book if you didn't even know what it was about?": In this farcical send-up of academia and the writing life, author Michael Chabon focuses on forty-ish author Grady Tripp, an aptly named writer/professor who is so [... more]
$24.95
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