A Model World
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Wry and whimsical, but also with intellectual depth, A MODEL WORLD is a collection of eleven wonderful stories about growing up and growing wise.
In โS Angelโ a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. โSmokeโ takes us to a baseball catcherโs funeral, where one of the mourners โ a has-been pitcher โ 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, โThe Lost Worldโ, is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parentsโ bitter divorce.
Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of Americaโs most celebrated writers.
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Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories, โA Model Worldโ and โWerewolves in their Youthโ, the novels โThe Mysteries of Pittsburghโ, โWonder Boysโ, โThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayโ, โThe Yiddish Policemenโs Unionโ and โTelegraph Avenueโ, and the non-fiction books โMaps and Legends and Manhood for Amateursโ. โWonder Boysโ has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. and โThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayโ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and their four children.
