Summerland
[Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12)]
[*Read by the author - Michael Chabon]
For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings known as ferishers who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero a baseball star, in fact to vanquish their foe. Summerland is the story of Ethan Feld, the worst ball player in the history of the game. Accompanied by his determined friend and guided by a friendly werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, batwinged goblins, and one of the toughest ballclubs in the realms of magic, to save the Summerlands and ultimately the world.
[*Read by the author - Michael Chabon]
For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings known as ferishers who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero a baseball star, in fact to vanquish their foe. Summerland is the story of Ethan Feld, the worst ball player in the history of the game. Accompanied by his determined friend and guided by a friendly werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, batwinged goblins, and one of the toughest ballclubs in the realms of magic, to save the Summerlands and ultimately the world.
Teen & Young AdultLiterature & FictionSportsAction & AdventureScience Fiction & FantasyFantasy
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
LENGTH1
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon's most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004. Source: Wikipedia
Summerland
[Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12)]
[*Read by the author - Michael Chabon]
For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings known as ferishers who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero a baseball star, in fact to vanquish their foe. Summerland is the story of Ethan Feld, the worst ball player in the history of the game. Accompanied by his determined friend and guided by a friendly werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, batwinged goblins, and one of the toughest ballclubs in the realms of magic, to save the Summerlands and ultimately the world.
[*Read by the author - Michael Chabon]
For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings known as ferishers who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero a baseball star, in fact to vanquish their foe. Summerland is the story of Ethan Feld, the worst ball player in the history of the game. Accompanied by his determined friend and guided by a friendly werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, batwinged goblins, and one of the toughest ballclubs in the realms of magic, to save the Summerlands and ultimately the world.
Teen & Young AdultLiterature & FictionSportsAction & AdventureScience Fiction & FantasyFantasy
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
LENGTH1
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon's most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004. Source: Wikipedia
