Майкл Шейбон

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" literatu...

A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own liv...

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures - from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories...

Ethan Feld is bad at baseball. Hopeless, even. But when his father mysteriously disappears, Ethan is recruited to save him and the world by traveling the baseball-obsessed Summerlands to stop Coyote, the trickster, from unmaking existence. With help from a ragtag group of friends he meets along the way, Ethan must not only find his father and stop Coyote, but also master his position on the field....

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, an...

In this brilliant collection of short stories a plagiarised dissertation on Antarctic cloud movement leads to an awkward encounter between a student and his professor, a toy inventor and a DJ fall for the same waitress with unhappy consequences for their friendship, and a failing baseball pitcher, at his friend's funeral, is forced to face the truth about his career. Peopled with enthralli...

Впервые на русском — новейший роман признанного мастера современной американской прозы, лауреата Пулицеровской премии, автора таких международных бестселлеров, как «Невероятные приключения Кавалера и Клея», «Союз еврейских полисменов», «Питтсбургские тайны», «Вундеркинды» и др. Это роман о правде и лжи, о великой любви, о семейных легендах и о большом экзистенциальном приключении. Герой Шейбона пр...

Неоконченный роман, угнанная машина, убитая собака и распавшийся брак - вот некоторые из неприятностей, наслаивающихся друг на друга в забавной истории о многообещающих начинаниях, которые пошли наперекосяк. Во время одного сумасшедшего уикенда профессор Грэйди Трипп пытается собрать по частям свою жизнь, которая внезапно вышла из-под контроля...