Recensione:
“Chabon... offers an ebullient yarn that blithely defies probability, while plundering from innumerable semi-literary sources... Ridiculously entertaining. If the movie people don’t snap this one up, somebody’s asleep at the switch.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Slyly entertaining. . . . Altogether enjoyable and thought-provoking. . . Chabon . . . is a marvelously gifted writer who brings to his work not only an unself-conscious mastery of technique but also a knowing intelligence born of deep and fearless reading. He has impeccable literary fiction credentials, which give him the street cred to treat genre fiction such as Gentlemen of the Road in the same way he treats all of his books’ characters: with respect but not piety... There’s a great deal of smart and sophisticated enjoyment to be had from Gentlemen of the Road.” — Los Angeles Times
“Gleeful. . . . The plot and voice of Gentlemen of the Road recall the stories found in 19th-century dime novels and the fantastic escapades invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. Gary Gianni’s drawings highlight particularly thrilling moments, and with chapter titles like “On the Observance of the Fourth Commandment Among Horse Thieves” . . . Chabon works old-fashioned niceties into a postmodern pastiche. The action is intricate and exuberant.” — The New York Times
“It’s tiny but overstuffed, and like a battered piece of antique luggage covered with exotic stickers, it’s more interesting for what it reveals about the owner’s hunger to discover new places than for its actual contents... The snack-sized epic . . . combines Chabon’s keen, inventive approach to questions of Jewish identity, bravery, and displacement with his taste for degraded forms.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Probably the premiere prose stylist — the Updike — of his generation. . . . Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he’s having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the ‘popular’ genres. He riffs on them, toys with them, steals their best tricks, passes them notes in class, etc. In Gentlemen of the Road . . . he achieves something like consummation. He goes all the way.” — Time
“Extraordinary adventures unfold; there’s bloodshed, violence, pillage and plunder, elephants play a crucial role and nothing is what it seems. Every page holds a twist, while the prose is rich, but perfect in its control and its calibration between the poetic and the exotic. . . . The book has a melancholy heart while its allegorical echoes are at once hard-nosed, wishful and fantastic (and all the more powerful for that). With its allusive glances here at Milorad Pavic’s Dictionary of the Khazars, there at Don Quixote, its soaring storytelling and subtle resonances with contemporary history, readers might feel that they have reached the book equivalent of the Promised Land.” — The Times
“This book is full of dry, sophisticated humour.” — Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.
L'autore:
Michael Chabon is the author of the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. His next novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, will be published by Harper Collins in May of 2007. He is also the author of two collections of short stories, a #1 bestselling young adult novel, Summerland, and has written a number of screenplays and teleplays. He writes a regular column for Details magazine. Chabon lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
From the Hardcover edition.
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