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It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval. Gentlemen is dedicated to michael moorcock, a writer of. Michael chabon, gentlemen of the road jews with swords. Excerpt from gentlemen of the road by michael chabon, plus. He followed it with wonder boys 1995, and two shortstory collections. In this way, chabon is as generous to his readers as he is to his. Adventure, fantasy, fiction, historical, historical fiction, literary fiction. The novel opens with a thrown insult followed by a thrown axe, immediately setting the stage for a fight as well as setting the tone of the story and drawing the rough characters we. Gentlemen of the road ebook by michael chabon 9780307495655. Gentlemen of the road is quite different than anything else he has written yet it shows chabons wonderful style of writing. The story is set a years ago once upon a time in a far, far away place bearing some resemblance to the north and east black sea area, two jewish gentlemen of the road adventurers, one from regensberg and one from ethiopia, journey along together disparate characters, not above the well practiced con now and.

Chabons prose is luxurious, selfindulgent, winding its way through sprawling sentences with the easy selfconfidence of a writer in complete control. Originally serialized in the new york times magazine januarymay 2007, its a story that moves from a caravansary in the caucasus, along the. Summerland was a generous and nuanced book about baseball and fantasy for older children. The yiddish policemans union is okay, it gets points for the originality of the setting, but the alcoholic loner policeman trope has been done better elsewhere. He followed it with a second novel, wonder boys 1995, and two shortstory collections. Zelikman a white, thin and blond surgeon who carries a thin, sharp,oversized bloodletting instrument as a sword, using his academic knowledge to his enemies misfortune and who is traumatized from watching his family. Gentlemen of the road by michael chabon, paperback. Michael chabon seems to have discovered a rich vein of gentle humour. Gentlemen of the road by michael chabon, a novel about. Instead of relying on sword and sorcery, slave girls, and demons of the depths to generate a plot, this book is set in our worlds real history, and is the better tale for it then so many other so called adventures.

Praise for gentlemen of the road within a few pages i was happily tangled in chabon s net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an oldschoolstyle swashbuckling quest. Gentlemen of the road takes place in the 10th century, partly in the arran region of azerbaijan, and includes two jewish mercenary characters. Largeprint edition published on april 2, 2008 by thorndike press as a hardcover. A tale of adventure by michael chabon, gary gianni.

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