Michael Chabon (Washington D.C., 24 de mayo de 1963) es un escritor estadounidense de ascendencia judia. Su novela Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay fue galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer en 2001.
"A magnificently crafted, exuberantly alive, emotionally lustrous,
and socially intricate saga....Bubbling with lovingly curated
knowledge about everything from jazz to pregnancy...Chabon's
rhapsodically detailed, buoyantly plotted, warmly intimate
cross-cultural tale of metamorphoses is electric with suspense,
humor, and bebop dialogue....An embracing, radiant
masterpiece."--"Booklist", starred review
"["Telegraph Avenue"] has a Great American Novel heft to
it--probably because, all caps aside, it is a great American
novel."--Kathryn Schulz, "New York magazine"
"An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story....[Chabon's] people
become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the
author's buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually
becomes a genuinely immersive experience--something increasingly
rare in our ADD age."--Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"
"As ever, Chabon is a performing magician. He can take any topic
and stage it so the crowd smiles and even "oohs" its
amazement....Chabon makes a grab for the entire world in a single
bighearted book."--Darin Strauss, "New York Times Book Review"
"Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. He is generous to
his characters, to his landscapes, to syntax, to words, to his
readers--there is a real joy in his work....Both ambitious and
lighthearted, the novel is a touching, gentle, comic
meditation."--Cathleen Schine, "New York Review of Books"
"Witty and compassionate and full of more linguistic derring-do
than any other writer in American could carry off."--Ron Charles,
"Washington Post"
"'Virtuosity' is the word most commonly associated with Chabon, and
if "Telegraph Avenue", the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of "The Yiddish Policeman's Union", is at first glance less
conceptual than its predecessors, the sentences are no less
remarkable."--"Publishers Weekly"
""Telegraph Avenue" is so exuberant, it's as if Michael Chabon has
pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of
words....His sentences spring, bounce, set off sparklers, even when
dwelling in mundane details....Fantastic."--Carolyn Kellogg, "Los
Angeles Times Book Review"
"[Chabon] is a truly gifted writer of prose: He writes long,
luxurious sentences that swoop and meander before circling back in
on themselves, not infrequently approximating the improvisational
jazz that Archy and Nat hold so dear."--"Associated Press"
"A beautiful, prismatic maximalism of description and tone, a sly
meditation on appropriation as the real engine of integration, and
an excellent rationale for twelve-page sentences."--Kelsey Dake,
"GQ"
"A buoyant novel, written with the author's typical stylistic
elegance and empathetic imagination....His prose is as energizing
as ever, in part because he's always willing to try high-risk
maneuvers up on the figurative balance beam."--Troy Patterson,
"Slate"
"A dazzling display of sheer writing ability from the prodigiously
talented Chabon."--"Philadelphia Inquirer"
"A dazzling star turn of a novel that showcases Chabon's writing
talents like a digital TV screen above Times Square....Chabon does
love popular culture, but he loves humanity more, and that love is
the power behind this sweeping novel."--Bob Hoover, "Minneapolis
Star Tribune"
"A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and
marriage...Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists
of all time, powering out sentences that are the equivalent of
executing a triple back flip on a bucking bull while juggling chain
saws and making love to three women."--Benjamin Percy,
"Esquire"
"A jam that grooves, entertains, entrances and sticks in your head
with infectious melodies....[Chabon] is a hypnotizing master of
language, crafting fresh descriptors for familiar functions, poetic
detours that never sacrifice narrative flow, well-oiled
metaphorical machinations, and seamless time travelling that makes
the phrase 'flashback' seem obsolete."--Jake Austen, "Chicago
Tribune"
"A moving, sprawling, modern-day tale that uses the improvisational
shifts and rhythms of jazz and soul to tell the story of two
couples....With seeming ease, Chabon shifts from high-wire
flourishes...to moments of crystalline simplicity."--Robert Bianco,
"USA Today" (4 out of 4 stars)
"A sparkling, mesmerizing read....That's what Chabon's books do,
sentence after sentence, page after page: they force you to bring
your game up to his level....His writer's eye makes the world a
more vivid, vital place to live."--Michael Bourne, "The
Millions"
"A stylized, rapturous novel...."Telegraph Avenue" entertains with
a riotous mashup of comics, kung fu, '70s jazz and family strife,
but at the core lie some startlingly sober revelations."--Zane
Jungman, "Austin American-Statesman"
"An achingly poignant vibe of sweet and soulful idealism makes
itself heard throughout "Telegraph Avenue"....It's a dream worth
imagining, and Chabon does so with skill, charm, and no small
amount of virtuosic writing."--Diane Cole, "Jewish Week"
"An end-of-an era epic....A Joyce-an remix with a hipper rhythm
track."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"An exhilarating, bighearted novel."--"O magazine"
"As always, Chabon's gorgeous prose astonishes, particularly in the
Joycean chapter 'A Bird of Wide Experience'....Like that colorful
bird, Telegraph Avenue dazzles and soars."--Cliff Froehlich, "St.
Louis Post-Dispatch"
"Astounding....steamrolls the barrier that has kept the Great
American Novel at odds with the country it's supposed to
reflect....[A] huge-hearted, funny, improbably hip book."--John
Freeman, "Boston Globe"
"Chabon has a near effortless ability to reveal the huge universal
human truths that scaffold absurdly specific circumstances, and he
does so on nearly every page here."--Emily SImon, "Buffalo
News"
"Chabon has made a career of routing big, ambitious projects
through popular genres, with superlative results....The scale of
"Telegraph Avenue" is no less ambitious....Much of the
wit...inheres in Chabon's astonishing prose. I don't just mean the
showy bits...I mean the offhand brilliance that happens
everywhere."--Jennifer Egan, "New York Times Book Review" (cover
review)
"Chabon not only knows how [his characters] feel, but how they
talk. His dialogue is a thing to behold, the plot unrelenting. And
I can't imagine any writer, male or female, ever delivering a more
breathtaking description of a woman giving birth. Some midwife,
this Chabon."--Dan Cryer, "Newsday"
"Chabon's hugely likable characters all face crises of existential
magnitude, rendered in an Electra Glide flow of Zen sentences and
zinging metaphors that make us wish the needle would never arrive
at the final groove."--"Elle"
"Chabon's inventiveness requires language dazzling and deft enough
to put it across, and like most of his later work, "Telegraph
Avenue" reads easy - I downed 300 pages flying back from Denmark,
stopping only to eat and nap."--Robert Christgau,
"barnesandnoble.com"
"Displays both his sense of ordinary people's inner lives and his
rich, freewheeling prose....A dense, flavorful book about race,
class, politics, culture and sexuality, as expansive and ambitious
as anything Chabon has published to date....An essential,
unforgettable read."--Ben Pfeiffer, "Kansas City Star"
"Forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion.
"Telegraph Avenue" might best be described as Chabonesque.
Exuberantly written, generously peopled, its sentences go off like
a summer fireworks show, in strings of bursting metaphor."--Jess
Walter, "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Fresh, unpretentious, delectably written....For all his
explorations into the contentious dynamics of family, race and
community, Mr. Chabon's first desire is simply to enchant with
words. Eight novels in, he still uses language like someone amazed
by a newly discovered superpower."--Sam Sacks, "Wall Street
Journal"
"He writes with such warmth and humor and sheer enthusiasm - for
his characters, for the rhythms and atmosphere of Oakland, for geek
culture, for the mysterious power of music, which he captures with
uncommon descriptive virtuosity - that by the end it's hard to
resist this charmingly earnest book."--Rob Brunner, "Entertainment
Weekly"
"His most mature, accessible fiction to date...An engrossing,
well-crafted drama of family and friendship....Chabon's
storytelling gifts seem to know no bounds, and the dexterity with
which he crafts his beautiful prose is often breathtaking."--Jeremy
Garber, "The Oregonian"
"If any novelist can pack the entire American zeitgeist into 500
pages, it's Chabon....Ambitious, densely written, sometimes very
funny, and fabulously over the top, here's a rare book that really
could be the great American novel."--"Library Journal" (starred
review)
"Michael Chabon is the Michael Jordan of American
novelists...."Telegraph Avenue" could serve as a master class on
how to write a novel."--John Broening, "Denver Post"
"One of Chabon's great gifts is an ability to beguile us with prose
that exudes warmth into seeing ourselves in others, to even know
them as ourselves. It's a feat that parlays "Telegraph Avenue",
with its diverse population, into an All-American novel, one of the
great ones."--Sherryl Connelly, "Daily News"
"Spectacular."--Mike Fischer, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"The writing - stylized, humorous and often dazzling - is inflected
with tones of jazz and funk. But it's Chabon's ear for the sounds
of the human soul that make this book a masterpiece, as his vividly
drawn characters learn to live at the intersection of
disappointment and hope."--Robin Micheli, "People" (4 out of 4
stars)
"This is a novel rich in story and character, rich in its dialogue
and descriptions, rich in spirit and invention - and full of sharp,
funny writing....The spirit of "Telegraph Avenue" is one of union
and reconciliation, a welcome, exuberant voice in our fractious
times."--David Walton, "Cleveland Plain Dealer"
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