Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
222 pages
|Published: 28 Apr 2008
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ISBN: 9781932416893
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: McSweeney's
Publication date: 28 April 2008
Description
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts - a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
Cover art by Jordan Crane.
Cover art by Jordan Crane.
