Gentlemen of the Road (18 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Chabon is the author of the bestselling
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
and
The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist
Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gary Gianni graduated from the Chicago Academy
of Fine Arts and began his career as an illustrator for the
Chicago Tribune
and as a network television courtroom sketch
artist. He has received the Eisner and Spectrum awards
for his work, which appears in numerous books, comics,
and magazines. Gianni currently draws the syndicated
newspaper adventure strip
Prince Valiant.

Gentlemen of the Road
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by Michael Chabon

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published in serial form in
The New York Times
in 2007.

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PUBLICATION DATA

Chabon, Michael.
Gentlemen of the road: a tale of adventure/Michael Chabon;
illustrated by Gary Gianni.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-49565-5

1. Azerbaijan—History—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.H15G46 2007

813′.54—dc22 2007029251

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