The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

Michael Chabon [SIGNED]

ISBN 10: 006076340X ISBN 13: 9780060763404

Editorial: Harper, 2004

Idioma: Ingl�s

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4th Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins; (2004). Hard cover. Book condition: Very fine or better; dust jacket condition: very fine or better. Stated "First U. S. Edition" with no number line. 8-1/2" tall, 131 pages; pale green boards with medium green paper quarter binding, gilt lettering on spine only; boards are undecorated; plain ivory end pages. Book is square, binding tight, corners not bumped, very slight creasing at head and heel of spine; interior clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean, crisp, unfaded, with "$16.95" printed on front flap. No other discernible or objectionable faults on book or jacket such as marks or writing within, stains, tears, chips, or other damage that would diminish its appearance. No remainder mark, no previous owner markings or inscriptions, not a book club edition, not a former library book. Signed in broad black felt pen by author at the bottom of title page, done in my presence at Saint Louis County (Missouri) Library headquarters on May 3, 2008, after 7 PM reading from "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" (it had recently come out in paper back) and a question & answer session.

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T�tulo: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
Editor: Harper
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2004
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 006076340X
ISBN 13: 9780060763404
Encuadernaci�n: Hardcover
Edici�n: 1st Edition
Estado: Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine
Firmado: Signed by Author(s)

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In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out—a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister?

Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.

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In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, 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.

In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?

Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

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I am a collector who must downsize his collections of three distinct types of books: leather-bound books,mainly Easton Press; signed first print editions, mostly from the last three decades; and juvenile (boys) series books, mostly from 1890's to early 1960's and most in dust jackets.

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