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Michael Chabon
Hardcover | Pages: 500 pages Rating: 3.55 | 11187 Users | 1144 Reviews
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| Title | : | Summerland |
| Author | : | Michael Chabon |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 500 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2004 by Turtleback Books (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Sports. Baseball |
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Summerland is the story of a young hero on a quest through the strange world of the American Faery. This is a fantasy for readers of all ages, set against the background of the American myth. The Clam Island fairies are in grave peril. War is coming, another battle in an ancient conflict. When the band sends for a champion, they get an 11 year-old boy named Ethan Feld. He hates baseball and wants to quit his losing team, but Jennifer T. Rideout loves baseball and won't let him quit. The two find themselves on a journey that includes zeppelins, werefoxes, Indian mythology, sasquatches, wendigos, and the haunted 161 year old husk of George Armstrong Custer. Finally Ethan becomes who he is: a changeling, a hero, and even a man. - Publisher StatementPoint Books Conducive To Summerland
| Original Title: | Summerland |
| ISBN: | 0606292551 (ISBN13: 9780606292559) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.55 From 11187 Users | 1144 ReviewsRate Regarding Books Summerland
I admit that, as a grown-up who's not a baseball fan, I am not this book's target audience. However, I really enjoyed the American take on faerie and folklore mixed with older traditions, and the way Chabon mythologizes baseball. By the end there are almost too many characters to keep track of, but I loved Jennifer T. Rideout so much. Now I'm imagining the Shadowtails vs. Tolkien's Fellowship baseball game...I guess if I were eleven years old, this book would've been alright... But, coming from a Pulitzer-winning author, I was kinda expecting a 500-page kids' fantasy novel to be at least moderately entertaining for adults as well. Chabon's prose is excellent, but he tries too hard to be quirky; and, therefore, the story never really sucks you in the way it's supposed to because nearly everything that happens in the plot feels random and silly. The basic premise of SUMMERLAND is that a boy selected
The pace is a bit slow, but that seems to fit because the story is about baseball. Also multidimensionality and the eternal fight of good against evil.
The description sounds good, eh? I read this aloud to the kids. About a hundred pages in I started having misgivings. I did not enjoy this book. But the kids would've been out of sorts had I not finished it (they'll listen to almost anything). I don't really have anything good to say about this book. While I've read other books by the author and really liked them, this one counts as a FAIL. (For the record, my wife really enjoyed it.) Here's what I didn't like about it:a) the writing style: too
Convoluted! I desire to give this 500 pg hardbound book away....to a child who LOVES baseball, and who doesn't mind fantasy. This was def the wrong choice of book for the first Chabon book I've ever read. But I am stubborn, and thought I could get into the story given I was educated as to Chabon's headspace after having lost a child, his grieving, his love of baseball, his wanting the remaining kids to have a story with hidden lessons....Not a book for me. But I can definitely spot the jewels of
name a writing gimmick that is used in fantasy, particularly young adult fantasy, and i'm sure it was employed here. an alternate reality that is tied to our reality that explains all the mythological and fantastical characters in our collective mythos? yes. time works differently in this world, so you can be there and be gone for a lifetime or only a few minutes or SHOCK even go back in time? yes. a powerful nemesis who is actually the embodiment of every known evil since the beginning of time,
It's been a few days, and I'm still not quite sure what I think of this book. It's long, and I finished it, so I suppose that's a good sign. It made me want to love baseball (like I had just finished watching "Field of Dreams").UPDATE: From a few months on, I can say that I enjoyed it and have fond memories of it.I do have one [minor] gripe, though: Edwin Schrödinger's point with his famous cat example is that a thing *cannot* be both alive and dead at the same time -- the cat is either alive or
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