The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

Michael Chabon

ISBN 10: 006076340X / ISBN 13: 9780060763404

Published by Harper & Row, New York, New York, 2004

About this Item

This copy of "The Final Solution" has been boldly SIGNED by Michael Chabon on the title page from his appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia on December 8, 2016! In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier andClay," prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books - intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In "The Final Solution," he has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize fri Fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006076340X
• ISBN 13: 9780060763404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Aga Khan Prize Author
  • Modern First Editions
  • Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

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Synopsis

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a mysterious series of German numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. 75,000 first printing.

Review

"Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America."--Christian Science Monitor

"A profound pleasure."--New York magazine

"A haunting novella."--Publishers Weekly

"Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining."--The Forward

"Exuberant...the real mystery is how Chabon managed to fit so much hope and humanity into such a brief tale."--BookPage

"Watching Chabon skillfully zigzag between literary and genre is half the fun of the book...refreshing."--Miami Herald

"Chabon's writing here is elegant and limber...[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas."--San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004)

"One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master."--The New York Sun

"Delightful...and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness."--Louisville Courier Journal

"The writing is everything that Chabon's fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic...wonderfully executed."--Baltimore Sun