This book is about stories that infect us with enthusiasm and pleasure.  It's a love letter to comic books and fairytales, detective stories and unabashed science fiction.  Chabon describes (in beautifully written, joyful essays) how those stories influence his own work, and champions the need to read and write for sheer entertainment. 

Megan K.

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (Paperback)

By Michael Chabon

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780061650925
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 3/2009

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