A story collection from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, ';one of his generation's most eloquent new voices' (The New York Times). With his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon announced his presence as a literary wunderkind of style and substance. A Model World and Other Stories only burnished his reputation as a distinctive prose stylist. In eleven elegant talessome of them linkedby the New York Timesbestselling author of Telegraph Avenue and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon's singular characters hold tight to private dreams even as their closest relationships crumble. Five stories follow an anxious adolescent from the beach vacation where he learns of his parents' divorce to the confused days of a woefully misguided crush. Others find ex-lovers tormenting each other at an oceanside cafe, a washed-up...
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