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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Michael Chabon

Description: An amazing photo-essay of a text book, each word drawn with more fondly obsessive care thanAn amazing photo-essay of a text book, each word drawn with more fondly obsessive care than your average Josef Kavalier comic-book cover. This book, about the journey of a young Jewish refugee finding fame and fortune through the most American of industries (and the people who love him), goes slower in some parts than others. but in all ways is a brilliant companion book to his similarly excellent Wonder Boys. Both totally different and noticeably the same, it's even more excellent. Highly recommended. ~EEHB...

2006-03-27