✨ Featured Offer
Used, Very Good
$18.67
List Price: $11.40
🚚
See all 2 offers from $18.67 FREE standard delivery by: 29 Mar 2026
Overview
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.
Written with wryness, whimsy and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise.
In 'S Angel' a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. 'Smoke' takes us to a baseball catcher's funeral, where one of the mourners - a has-been pitcher - confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book 'The Lost World' is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents' bitter divorce.
Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America's most celebrated writers.
Written with wryness, whimsy and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise.
In 'S Angel' a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. 'Smoke' takes us to a baseball catcher's funeral, where one of the mourners - a has-been pitcher - confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book 'The Lost World' is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents' bitter divorce.
Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America's most celebrated writers.
| ISBN-13 | 9781841153629 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1841153621 |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.08 x 0.51 x 7.80 In |
| List Price | $11.40 |
| Format | - |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 208 pages |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Published On | 2008-03-03 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
✨ Used, Very Good
Seller details
Chaparral Books
Portland, OR, USA
Size: 7x5x0; Softcover edition signed on title page. A crisp, unread, unmarked copy. The wrapper i...
Free delivery by: 29 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 29 Mar 2026