Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [Title Page Only] - Michael Chabon

Descriere Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [Title Page Only] - Michael Chabon

This rollicking saga by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is set 1,000 years ago along the ancient Silk Road, and tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates. \n#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE \n \nA picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.--The Washington Post Book World \nThey'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 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. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution--on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. \n \nPraise for Gentlemen of the Road \n \nWithin a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor.--San Francisco Chronicle \n \n[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation.--Time \n \nThe action is intricate and exuberant. . . . It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language.--The New York Times Book Review \n \n[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud.--Chicago Sun-Times\n

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Del Rey Books

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9780345502070

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1

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