Summerland

Author(s): Michael Chabon

Fiction.

Ethan is a young hero on a quest though the strange world of American Fairy. Since baseball is the favourite game of American fairies, or 'ferishers' as the North American Fairy Folk call themselves, this is necessarily a story of baseball, too. Zeppelins, werefoxes, Indians and Indian mythology, sasquatches, wendigos, Alaska, the haunted, 161-year-old husk of George Armstrong Custer, and a boy who thinks he's an android also figure in the action. Along the way, the hero and heroine find themselves and each other; a band of Ferishers triumphs over their ancient enemy and finally find someone new to play baseball against; a widower's heart will heal as his airship conquers the Northern sky; and a burnt-out Colombian slugger named Rodrigo Buendia will find redemption in discovering, with Ethan Feld and Jennifer T. Rideout, the true nature of heroism. Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of stories for adults, A Model World and Werewolves in their Youth, and the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys (which has been made into a film) and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. Hardback


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General Fields

  • : 9780007156023
  • : Collins Jewellery
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Chabon
  • : Hardback
  • : JAN03