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GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD; A Tale of Adventure
by Chabon, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0786808772
- ISBN 13
- 9780786808779
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, oxblood quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over oxblood boards, full-page black & white sketches for the 15 chapters by Gary Gianni, an archival quality clear plastic cover protects the pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Chabon's characteristic circular motif: this time encircled by elephants in silhouette while along the lower border two shadowy traveller's survey a colorful mountainous landscape, map endpapers, [viii] + 204 pages + [4] About.. Author..Artist..Type. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally and externally! GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD is a marvellous tale of adventure with an Arabian Nights flavor. Michael Chabon (born 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He has also won the 2007 Nebula award; the 2008 Hugo Award for The Yiddish Policeman's Union; the 2007 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History; and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2008). GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD treats the amazing adventures of moody Dr. Zelikman and the huge ex-soldier Amran as they make their dangerous way through the Caucasus Mountains and land of the Kazars during the mid-10th century.
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
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3977
- Title
- GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD; A Tale of Adventure
- Author
- Chabon, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0786808772
- ISBN 13
- 9780786808779
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Jews, BASEBALL, LITTLE LEAGUE, Sasquatch, boys, werefox, giants, goblins, adventures, rescue
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