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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

by Will Layman

[14.Jan.08] :. Fans of Chabon will want to know that questions of identity here are sexual as well as religious and that these matters are artfully twined into the action.

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Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver [Editor]

by Neal Hayes

[11.Jul.07] :. Even the very best baseball players convert only three or four of every ten at bats into base hits. Perhaps Deaver can find some sort of poetic consolation in that statistic.

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Chabon’s domain: ‘Yiddish Policemen’ a fine partner for ‘Kavalier’

by Matt Krupnick [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[30.May.07] :. What place does Yiddish have in the modern American novel? About the same as a Jew in Alaska, perhaps, but it didn’t stop Michael Chabon from trying it out. The Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Chris Barsanti

[22.May.07] :. Michael Chabon finally unleashes the genre storyspinner who has been lurking inside him all these years.

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The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[17.May.07] :. Michael Chabon writes the best Saul Bellow novel since Saul Bellow died -- antic, droll, brainy, Yiddishy, secular, updated to present-day American -- but with differences that reflect literary times and their discrepant personalities.

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The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. Yiddish detective tracks a killer across Alaska in Michael Chabon's brilliantly conceived noir history.

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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

by Zachary Houle

[15.Feb.05] :. Is Michael Chabon only interested in treading water after winning the Pulitzer?"

 
 
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