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Bookends - Collected Intros and Outros (Paperback)
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Bookends - Collected Intros and Outros (Paperback)
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A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and
afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling
and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of
contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko
Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning
author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about
literature-age-old classics as well as his own-that presents a
unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books
that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and
reading. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for
that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them.
Chabon's answer is simple and simultaneously profound: "a hope of
bringing pleasure for the reader." Likewise, afterwords-they are
all about shared pleasure, about the "pure love" of a work of art
that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately,
this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and
thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure
of discovery, whether it's the boyhood revelation of the most
important story in Chabon's life (Ray Bradbury's "The Rocket Man");
a celebration of "the greatest literary cartographer of the planet
Mars" (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a
reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James,
ironically "the happiest of men"); the recognition that the worlds
of Wes Anderson's films are reassembled scale models of our own
broken reality (as is all art); Chabon's own rude awakening from
the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh;
or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes
for Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon
insists, is to "spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and
maintenance practices." Galaxies away from academic or didactic,
Bookends celebrates wonder-and like the copy of The Phantom
Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he
never saw again-it is a treasured gift.
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