Gentlemen of the Roadby Michael Chabon
New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007
Leisure Reading Collection, call # 3076
This is yet another delightful book by Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Summerland, and other novels. Chabon wrote this in the style of a vintage adventure/romance (in the old sense, not as in Romance Novel), and even had vintage style illustrations done for it. The adventure is placed in medieval Khazaria, a Central Asian kingdom. The Khazars were a Turkic people, but had adopted Judaism as their state religion. The book is a lot of fun, and a particular treat for lovers of the English language, as Chabon revels in the enormous vocabulary that English offers to the writer. Have your dictionary beside you, so you too can know why Chabon described a bird as “contumelious”!
Book review by Mark Hammond, SWC Librarian
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