Books by Michael Chabon
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review 1: While not to the level of his Pulitzer Prize winner, Michael Chabon once again manages to capture the poignancy of lives being lived in the throes of change -- societal, personal, historical, and creates wildly funny and engrossing characters who could easily slide into caricatu...
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review 1: Wow. I mean, wow. One of the best books I've read in a long while. It's not for everyone, but as a man in his mid-40s who grew up on the east coast and currently has young kids (not to mention having lived a life of a bacon-eating quasi-Jew), I am smack dab in the bullseye of the...
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review 1: This was a surprise discovery by my husband in Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville; we are both big Michael Chabon fans, and so Paul picked up the book to read to Sophia. She was so excited to recognize a superhero ("Like Mr. Incredible," she said), and she could not get enough of ...
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review 1: Listened to the audiobook. For some reason I have a strange compulsion to read Chabon, even though I so often end up disappointed, or not even disappointed, just unmoved, uninterested. There are some very good essays in this collection (and some great lines) but as a whole, I fou...
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review 1: The kids at my school love this book and I love it too. It's about a super hero, but not just any superhero, Awesome Man, who can shoot positronic rays out of his eyes and hug a runaway freight train. Awesome Man is great, but he knows that he has to be careful when he's angry no...