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September 7, 2008

Audio files: taking Michael Chabon on the road

“I just finished listening to the audiobook of Michael Chabon’s new novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a hardboiled alternate history novel set in a world where Israel falls in 1948 and its population of Jews relocate to a territory carved out of Alaska, a territory that is theirs for 60 years only…. I’m a great Chabon fan, and I think that this is his best book to date, better even than The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as it so perfectly marries the deadpan ironies of hardboiled fiction and Yiddish storytelling, in a word-drunk reel that spanned ten CDs of bitter humor and insight.” — Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing

Read more of Cory’s audio review here.

Posted by Donna Wares, June 11th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Fiction, New Release 2007, Reviews, Spoken word
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