Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces, Michael Chabon, review: Essay.
Maps and Legends is an essay collection by American author Michael Chabon that was scheduled for official release on May 1, 2008, although some copies shipped two weeks early from various online bookstores. The book is Chabon's first book-length foray into nonfiction, with 16 essays, some previously published.(1) Several of these essays are.Michael Chabon’s distinctive strength in storytelling is a command of style that reminds his reviewers of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Chabon creates an engaging surface of epigrams, wit, and telling.Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon is a very highly recommended collection of seven short essays. It is a sheer pleasure to reads these essays all thematically linked to fatherhood. There are poignant, funny, contemplative, and universal moments in this short collection that will leave a lasting impression on the reader. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole collection.
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you.Michael Chabon, (born May 24, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits. His narratives were frequently suffused with references to world mythology and to his own Jewish heritage. Chabon was the elder of two children.
In illuminating the meaning, magic, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon can, Pops—with the GQ story as its centerpiece and featuring six additional essays—promises to do much the same. NOTE: As with all Skylight Books in-store events, this reading is free and open to the public (first come, first served). But because we're.
