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A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as ”simply because” it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon presents his memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, as a theme played” on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key" by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor.

At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.

В разгар Второй мировой в графстве Суссекс доживает свои дни восьмидесятидевятилетний старец, некогда знаменитый сыщик, отошедший от дел и интересующийся только своей пасекой. Неожиданно судьба сводит его с немым еврейским мальчиком-беженцем. Единственное, что осталось у Линуса от прежней жизни, - серый попугай жако. Но что означают длинные цепочки цифр, которые произносит птица? Секретные коды СС? Или коды к счетам в швейцарских банках? А может, все куда проще и страшнее? На принадлежащего мальчику попугая начинается настоящая охота, а в доме, где он живет, происходит убийство…
В этой стилистически безупречной повести есть тонкость и гуманизм. И в то же время есть лихо закрученная интрига, детективная пружина, героика - все, чего читатель ждет от литературы "легкого" жанра. - The Guardian
Шейбону удалось создать лаконичную версию классического детектива XIX века, предназначенного для чтения в гостиной у камина. Он искусно воскрешает не только антураж викторианского детектива, но и образ его самого главного героя. - The Observer
Шейбон снова с легкостью берет высоко поднятую планку: что мешает хорошей детективной истории обладать достоинствами большой литературы? В "Окончательном решении" очистительного катарсиса нет, и в намеренном отказе этот катарсис вызвать заключается главная сила этой книги. Есть вещи, от которых не очистишься. - The New York Times

In this brilliant collection of short stories a plagiarised dissertation on Antarctic cloud movement leads to an awkward encounter between a student and his professor, a toy inventor and a DJ fall for the same waitress with unhappy consequences for their friendship, and a failing baseball pitcher, at his friend's funeral, is forced to face the truth about his career.

Peopled with enthralling characters and finding the unexpected in every situation, these eleven stories are written with Chabon's characteristic wryness, inventiveness and intellectual depth.

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.

Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts - 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.