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By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.- Coming soon!
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A Model World aches and pulses like a bruise through every day events, makes the case that the most banal experiences deserve - require - compassion specifically because they are so timid about asking for it. Chabon makes me want to rage against, defend, embrace all these apparitions we think of as extras in our lives...the single parent we skirt in the grocery store, the elderly checkout woman, the teenager we spot slumping home from school under a heavy pack. It reminds me of human frailty. Of quiet (self-inflicted) heartbreak. Of the closed universe in which each of us lives,…
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