GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD
by Chabon, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Del Rey/ Random House, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Chabon described this fantasy novel about a pair of Jewish bandits "a swashbuckling adventure story set around the year 1000." Originally published as a 15-part serial in the New York Times from Jan. 28 to Mar 6, 2007. This copy is from the hardcover edition issued later in 2007 by Del Rey, a first edition thus, first printing with complete numberline. About 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 204 pages including a new afterword by Chabon. Black paper-covered boards with Chabon's initials in center of small diamond-shaped graphic design on front cover, gold lettering on spine. Endpapers show map by David Lindroth and b&w illustrations in text by Gary Gianni. Dustjacket's pictorial design shows pair of men silhouetted agains a mountainous landscape in lower part of dj while author and title are in a red circle surrounded by elephants in upper part. Back panel of dj has six blurbs praising Chabon's work. Boards and spine show no damage or flaws, no bumped corners, no scratches or chipping. Fore edge of text shows very light, almost unnoticeable foxing, o/w text is clean, complete and unmarked. Not ex-library, not remaindered. Dustjacket is in equally excellent condition with no tears, creases or noticeable surface wear. Not price-clipped.
Synopsis
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--in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can--as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there--along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of--will be much more than half the fun.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006029
- Title
- GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD
- Author
- Chabon, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Del Rey/ Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- FANTASY, MODERN NOVEL, BANDITS, THIEVES, 10TH CENTURY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Europe; Fantasy;
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H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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