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"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure." -- The Washington Post Book World

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 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. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution -- on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of.

Praise for Gentlemen of the Road

"Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest... laced with surprises and humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist -- the Updike -- of his generation." -- Time

"The action is intricate and exuberant... It's hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language." -- The New York Times Book Review

"[A] wild, wild adventure... abounds with lush language... This book roars to be read aloud." -- Chicago Sun-Times

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  • Publication Date: December 18, 2008
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Disabled
  • Print Length: 226 Pages
  • File Size: 5,571 KB

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