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Summerland: A Novel: Summerland
 

Summerland: A Novel

by Michael Chabon

In Summerland, his first novel for young readers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts an American Narnia. Inspired by Lewis and Tolkien, he's created his own magical landscape on which to paint a sweeping fantasy quest, but mixes the same ingredients--folklore and new inventions--in a distinctively American way.
The plot is simple and pure, but takes a long time to... (read more)

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Gourbs
  • Rated 4 stars

“Michael Chabon's answer to Harry Potter--Now American's have a fantasy they can call their own. Opposed to wizards and dragons, it's steeped in American legends and Native American folklore. Instead of Voldermort the villain is the trickster coyote, but before the face off there is a group of garrulous, uncooperative giants. Oh and the plot is wrapped around a game of baseball. You won't find anything more American.”

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Ryan C
  • Rated 2 stars

“I don't remember if I finished this book. It was kind of a drag along the book HOOT by Hiiasen.”

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  • Rated 3.346667 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • Jillian S

    jillian s said:

    “I'm sorry jentaw, but I would have to disagree. I found this book extremely boring and difficult to finish. It's probably because I only like about 25% of the fantasy I have read, but I did like his message about Believing.”

    posted Thursday, July 24 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • jentaw

    jentaw said:

    “What a wonderful surprise this book was. An incredibly quick read, suffused with sunlight and carried along by beautiful, evocative writing. This book is a complete pleasure and, with the exception of a tiny fraction of the very beginning, such a complete and total departure from Chabon's dark short stories that it's remarkable the same author penned both. He treads some of the same ground as Neil Gaiman here, but in a completely different way; and though the book has the same beauty as The Amazing Adventures, it is not so mired in despair...it is aimed at young people, so while it doesn't sidestep sadness or shrink from the ugly surprises and arbitrary unfairnesses of life, it's still filled with hope.”

    posted Wednesday, June 4 2008
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