Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories, A Model World and Werewolves in their Youth, the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and the non-fiction books Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. Wonder Boys has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and their four children.
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TELEGRAPH AVENUE
The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic.
Publication date: UK 11th Sep 2012
TELEGRAPH AVENUE [ePub edition]
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Publication date: UK 11th Sep 2012
MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ and ‘The Yiddish Policemen's Union’, offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.
Publication date: UK 20th Jan 2011
MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union, offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.
Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010
MAPS AND LEGENDS
A collection of essays on books and why they matter, by the Pulitzer-award winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010
A MODEL WORLD
In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood – moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION
The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of ‘The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ and ‘The Final Solution’.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
WONDER BOYS
The brilliant novel from the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
THE FINAL SOLUTION
Brilliant novel by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
SUMMERLAND
An unforgettable novel from one of America’s greatest living storytellers, ‘Summerland’ is about redemption and the true nature of heroism.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
WEREWOLVES IN THEIR YOUTH
The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ and ‘Wonder Boys’.
Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author ‘Wonder Boys’. ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.
Publication date: UK 7th Jan 2008
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION
The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning ‘The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’
Publication date: UK 4th Jun 2007