| Record Number |
572741 |
| ISBN |
9780345501745 (alk. paper) |
| Author |
Chabon, Michael |
| Title |
Gentlemen of the road / Michael Chabon ; illustrated by Gary Gianni. |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007. |
| Pagination etc. |
xvi, 204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents note |
Map on endpapers. |
| Summary Note |
"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 fool-hardy 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Adventure fiction |
| Humorous stories |
| Azerbaijan -- History -- Fiction |
| Adventure fiction. |
| Humorous stories. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F |
