Maps and Legends
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781932416893
Subjects: Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Books & Reading; American Prose; Essay; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.