Summerland

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500 pages

English language

Published Dec. 19, 2002 by Miramax Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7868-1615-6
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OCLC Number:
50536236

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Summerland is a 2002 fantasy young adult novel by American writer Michael Chabon. It is about young children who save the world from destruction by playing baseball, the central theme and symbol throughout the novel. Summerland weaves elements of a World Series, parallel-universe road trip, and a hero's odyssey. The book received mixed reviews; The New York Times called it "bewilderingly busy" and likened it to "the novelization of an animated action film".

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3 stars

Not quite as good as Chabon's Kavalier and Klay, but since that was the best book I've read in a decade, this is still pretty darned good. This is a children's/young teen book, a fantasy about a magical land where baseball is natural law. It brought back a lot of memories about my own terrible performance in the kids' leagues, with a much happier ending for the tormented right fielder protagonist.

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