Ebook {Epub PDF} The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books; intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story/5().  · In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English /5(20).  · THE FINAL SOLUTION A Story of Detection. By Michael Chabon. Illustrated. pp. Fourth Estate/ HarperCollins Publishers. $ THE detective story is Author: Deborah Friedell.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon's new book follows the sleuthing adventures of an elderly Sherlock Holmes. It's called The Final Solution: A Story of Detection. Chabon explains how. In Mr. Chabon's "Final Solution," Holmes visits London after the Blitz, and in Mr. Cullin's "Slight Trick of the Mind," set a few years later, he travels with a Japanese friend to the ruins of. And of the two, it seems that Pulitzer-winning Michael Chabon has the former. "The Final Solution" is a smaller, more intimate story about Holmes' waning years. The time is around World War II. An old man, once a famous detective, now sits on his porch and contemplates his beekeeping -- when he sees a young boy with a parrot walk nearby.

THE FINAL SOLUTION A Story of Detection. By Michael Chabon. Illustrated. pp. Fourth Estate/ HarperCollins Publishers. $ THE detective story is as rules-bound as any sport, or so S. S. Michael Chabon’s novella The Final Solution takes place in Sussex in , in which an unnamed, octogenarian beekeeper – who on The final story in the series’ chronological order, “The Last Bow,” takes place in on the eve of World War I, after which Holmes retires from detecting and takes up beekeeping in the country. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection is a novella by Michael Chabon. It is a detective story that in many ways pays homage to the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other writers of the genre. The story, set in , revolves around an unnamed year-old long-retired detective, now interested mostly in beekeeping, and his quest to find a missing parrot, the only friend of a mute Jewish boy. The title of the novella references Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem" a.