Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros, Pre-Owned Paperback 0062851292 9780062851291 Michael Chabon

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• Format: Paperback
• Author: Michael Chabon
• ISBN10: 0062851292
• ISBN13: 9780062851291

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords plus some liner notes by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-‘one of contemporary literatures most gifted prose stylists’ Michiko Kakutani, New York Times .

In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature-age-old classics as well as his own-that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading.

Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabons answer is simple and simultaneously profound: a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader. Likewise, afterwords-they are all about shared pleasure, about the pure love of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether its the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabons life Ray Bradburys The Rocket Man ; a celebration of the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter ; a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories M. R. James, ironically the happiest of men ; the recognition that the worlds of Wes Andersons films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality as is all art ; Chabons own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronsons Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices.

Galaxies away from academic or didactic, Bookends celebrates wonder-and like the copy of The Phantom Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again-it is a treasured gift.

This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition.

<p>A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by <em>New York Times </em>bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon–"one of contemporary literatures most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, <em>New York Times</em>).</p><p>In <em>Bookends</em>, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature–age-old classics as well as his own–that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. </p><p>Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabons answer is simple and simultaneously profound: a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader. Likewise, afterwords–they are all about shared pleasure, about the pure love of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether its the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabons life (Ray Bradburys The Rocket Man); a celebration of the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James, ironically the happiest of men); the recognition that the worlds of Wes Andersons films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality (as is all art); Chabons own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, <em>The Mysteries of Pittsburgh;</em> or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronsons <em>Uptown Special</em>, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices. </p><p>Galaxies away from academic or didactic, <em>Bookends </em>celebrates wonder–and like the copy of <em>The Phantom Tollbooth </em>handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again–it is a treasured gift.</p>