false 587638 12 Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures—from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories—in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales. They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can—as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances. None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there—along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of—will be much more than half the fun. 2636942 30 10 2007 Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure total:2495|5:288|4:859|3:920|2:337|1:91| 2495 8401 3737 656 2715442 0345502078 9780345502070 45 9 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255610815m/2715442.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2715442.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 4 3 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 18:18:52 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 16:38:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 3 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:42:26 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:42:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 1 2 false Tue Oct 02 13:21:53 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 10 11:31:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 4 3 false Tue Oct 02 10:06:04 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 15:39:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1309983 0340953543 9780340953549 17 5 3.37 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1309983.Gentlemen_of_the_Road 3 1 true Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 01:33:07 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 01:46:16 -0700 2008
I liked this book. The author confesses that his working title was "Jews with Swords," and actually one ...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 4 1 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 21:40:38 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 01:30:18 -0700 2008 “I want to do nothing. Nothing. Okay, maybe I’ll read a book. Hmm… Gentleman of the Road, by Michael Chabon. Well, I really liked Kavalier and Clay. And I liked Yiddish Policeman’s Union. And this is a short book- maybe I’ll just read this book, and work my...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 3 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 12:23:58 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 09:46:33 -0700 2008
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"Gentlemen of the Road" draws from what some might call 'pulp' fiction styles, or in other cases 'adventure fiction'. The language...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 5 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 19 20:10:48 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 21:59:55 -0800 2007 Really though, this book was just excently written. It was fun, had great character development (which I think was the main thing lacking in Cha...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 1 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 24 08:46:46 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 07 08:54:18 -0700 2008
The nov...more...]]> 1309983 0340953543 9780340953549 17 5 3.37 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1309983.Gentlemen_of_the_Road 1 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 11:19:51 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 11:40:07 -0800 2007 Summerland. I can see the model of the boy's adventure story that Chabon is trying to ad...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 2 1 false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 03:43:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 02:22:28 -0700 2009 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 3 1 false Mon Dec 17 15:32:44 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 09:02:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 4 1 false Wed Jan 02 22:19:47 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 29 13:11:34 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 22:18:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:52:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:52:46 -0800 2009 Gentlemen of the Road, compared by the New York Times Book Review to "the stories found in 19th-century dime novels and the fantastic escapades invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard," was first published in serial form in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Critics quickly ...

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Marred by a curiously hostile afterward which chastises the reader for thinking that adventure tales are fr...more...]]> 587638 0345501748 9780345501745 2372 621 3.37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189135103m/587638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587638.Gentlemen_of_the_Road_A_Tale_of_Adventure 4 9 false Fri Oct 30 14:28:10 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 13:54:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2088335