Gentlemen of the road: [a tale of adventure]
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Published:
New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2007.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Desc:
204 pages : ill., mapages ; 21 cm.
Status:
East Hampton Adult Fiction
FIC CHA
Description
Once more mining the rich past, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Michael Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures in this wonderful new novel.
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. 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 fool-hardy 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 will be much more than half the fun.
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. 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 fool-hardy 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 will be much more than half the fun.
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East Lyme Public Adult Fiction
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780345501745 (alk. paper)
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APA Citation (style guide)
Chabon, M. (2007). Gentlemen of the road: [a tale of adventure]. New York, Del Rey/Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Chabon, Michael. 2007. Gentlemen of the Road: [a Tale of Adventure]. New York, Del Rey/Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Chabon, Michael, Gentlemen of the Road: [a Tale of Adventure]. New York, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road: [a Tale of Adventure]. New York, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2007.
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