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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)by: Michael Chabon  Amazon.com's Price: $31.95 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781410405746 Format: Large Print ISBN: 1410405745 Label: Thorndike Press Manufacturer: Thorndike Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 235 Publication Date: April 02, 2008 Publisher: Thorndike Press Studio: Thorndike Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade’s most tantalizing tales. They’re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can–as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they’ve left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances. None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there–along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of–will be much more than half the fun. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Road Not Taken (2 and 1/2 stars)There's a lot of fun in "Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure". Michael Chabon, author of the well known and well written The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, wants to take us down a path of rollicking adventure and he does so in an elegant and poetic way. His attempt to write a Dickens-est serial (the book not only was first published in chapter segments for a periodical- but it's also written in a rather formal style) is both ambitious and charming. Sadly it does not work for a mass ... Read More Rating:  - "On Discord Arising from the Excessive Love of a Hat"The blurbs on the back cover compare "Gentlemen of the Road" to Alexandre Dumas and Edgar Rice Burroughs -- an old fashioned adventure story, short, fast paced, and easy to read. In its specifics it more closely resembles the Fafrhd and Grey Mouser series of stories by Fritz Leiber: a similar luxury of language and verbal wit, and a pair of juxtaposed wandering heroes, one giant and one small and quick. Our heroes here are Zelikman, a gaunt Frankish healer often described as a scarecrow, and Amram, ... Read More Rating: - actually literatureI'm writing this because I'm surprised at the number of negative reviews. This is not an escapist novel (of which I've enjoyed many); it is not Gray Mouse and Farquard marching alongside Conan. It's a short, classic and classy piece of good writing. Admittedly, it took me a little while to fall into the mood and rhythm of this book, but once I did, I found it a respite from the movie-paced light pieces of writing filling the bookstores today. So, if you like to read with a cup of tea in hand, and ... Read More Rating: - or Jews With SwordsChabon knocked around the title 'Jews With Swords' for this novel, and the title would have been as accurate for this nice little novel. Two gentlemen of the road embark on an erstwhle adventure that winds up being more than they bargained for. Along the lines of nineteenth century Fantasy Lit by writers such as H. Rider Haggard, the book is graced with wonderful illustrations that portray the adventure as one reads it. Along the way, money is made, lost and made again, a supposed deposed Prince is ... Read More Rating:  - Historical adventure, Chabon styleOne of the marks of a great writer would be versatility, a quality that Michael Chabon continues to demonstrate. After making his mark with more "literary" fiction, he has taken on assorted types of genre fiction, most notably with young adult fantasy (Summerland) and science fiction/mystery with The Yiddish Policemen's Union. His latest foray has been in the realm of historical adventure with Gentlemen of the Road. As noted in the Afterword, Chabon originally thought of this book as Jews ... Read More 
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