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	Summerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unincorporated community of Summerland, California, near Santa Barbara
		Summerland, an area on the east slope of Mount Rainier.
		Summerland Key, an island in the Florida Keys chain of islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summerland (112 words)

	Summerland disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Summerland Disaster occurred on the night of August 2, 1973.
		Fifty-one people were killed and eighty seriously injured when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre in Douglas on the Isle of Man.
		The street frontage and part of the roof were clad in a translucent acrylic sheeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summerland_disaster (435 words)

	Summerland by Michael Chabon - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, though noticeably constrained by youthful inexperience and the gimcrackery of MFA rote, nonetheless held enfolded within its pages the flicker of something wonderful yet to be.
		Summerland is Chabon's first children's book, and it is crafted with undeniable charm and a deep reverence for the conventions of the form.
		Perhaps Summerland should have been written as three books, for it seems too rushed, too small, as if it were a diversion or a side effort and not the main project.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2002fall/chabon.shtml (915 words)

	Michael Chabon, Summerland
		Summerland is being marketed as a fantasy novel for young adults, but please don't let that fool you.
		Summerland is a yarn in the old-fashioned sense of the word -- a long, tangled story that interrupts itself with first-person narration, apologetic flashbacks, refresher courses in the form of lectures given by senior characters, and the texts of non-fiction books written by ferisher baseball players and scouting experts of long ago.
		For all the fantastical flora and fauna of Summerland, which may bring to mind C.S. Lewis, T.H. White and the Brothers Grimm, its theme is that we all share one Lodgepole, and have a common responsibility to take care of it and of each other.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_chabon_summerland.html (1204 words)

	The lost adventure of childhood \| Salon.com
		Michael Chabon's new novel, "Summerland," is meant for kids, but it's just as rangy, eccentric, dreamy and funky as his books for adults.
		The novel's hero, Ethan Feld, is a reluctant player trying to please his baseball-smitten widower dad on a small island off the coast of Washington state.
		I know you wanted to write a children's fantasy novel that was grounded in America in the way classic British children's fantasy is grounded in the land and mythology of that area.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2002/10/22/chabon/index.html (1269 words)

	An Ergodic Walk » Books (Fiction)
		Summerland was a nice breath of fresh air though my brain, a good way to welcome in the spring.
		In this novel, Sam Vimes, who holds the job of police commissioner, is about to apprehend a vicious serial killer when he gets zapped back in time (with the criminal) to his youth.
		two novels rolled into one, it is simulatenously the autobiography of a woman in a small town in Canada at the end of her life as well as a bizarre novel of love and science-fiction fable.
	www.ergodicity.net /?cat=3 (1827 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		Novel about an African-American man who, after "living white," learns to live rough on the railroads of the West, where he becomes involved in the search for a 17-year-old girl who disappeared somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
		A second novel by the author of "Hummingbird House" (a National Book Award nominee), about a Catholic mother who, just as she's learning to embrace her daughter's lesbianism, is brought face-to-face with a 30-year-old secret when her illegitimate son contacts her.
		The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author ("Waiting") portrays a Chinese professor whose ravings, after he suffers a stroke, may be a symptom of illness or "an outpouring of truth" about his politically troubled past.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2002/0908/cover_litfiction.html (2058 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Summerland by Malcom Knox
		Malcolm Knox's debut novel concerns the lives of two young couples-four intimately close friends-who grow up, and grow apart, amid the seaside mansions, golf courses, and patio parties of Palm Beach, an Australian resort town, late in the twentieth century.
		Summerland is, essentially, a modern retelling of The Good Soldier, the classic novel by Ford Maddox Ford first published in 1915.
		"Summerland is a compelling novel with a sinister undertow.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/summerland1.asp (895 words)

	Book Template
		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, recruited by a hundred-year-old scout called Ringfinger Brown, himself a Negro League Legend.
		Summerland creates a whole new universe, an American version of Middle Earth, with legendary beings, monsters, and mythical creatures inhabiting a magical landscape where the powers of the past and the future, of good and evil, are engaged in an elaborate battle.
	www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com /board/displayBook.asp?id=572 (245 words)

	Summerland - The Novel (Scroll of Novelization)
		The road to finishing this novel of mine has been and will continue to be a long, winding affair.
		The novel has been nagging me, but I've not had the time or energy to get the engine started up again.
		The novel takes place in the farm region of Clearfield, PA. And in closing, Chapter 11 will be finished by week's end.
	www.weilandworks.com /summerland/sum_novel.html (1108 words)

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		His fresh-out-of-college novel was a very good collegiate story (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh), and he followed it up with an even better collegiate story (Wonder Boys–much funnier than the movie version, in which Michael Douglas was tragically miscast).
		Their destination is the Summerlands, which shares a name and a precarious border with the western edge of Ethan and Jennifer’s home, Clam Island, a Pacific Northwestern vacation isle.
		Summerland is at least as absorbing as Chabon’s previous novels.
	www.nypress.com /15/42/books/books.cfm (1072 words)

	Books and Writing - 18/07/2004: Malcolm Knox
		And then outside that is the overseas audience who are seeing things in it that they can place into their own environment, so there’s is no prejudice that comes into their reading, and if the book is successful for them then it’s the universality in the portrayals of places that bear fruit.
		Summerland is a beautiful surface that ultimately proves false but in A Private Man there’s a pretty grotty interior that you’re in from the start, and it deals with sexual issues like pornography and rape.
		So, I have faith that there will always be an important readership for this kind of novel, and by this kind of novel I mean novels that are far more unique than what I write: the very, very best writers in the worldI have faith that people will always be there to read those novels.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1155426.htm (3232 words)

	Reviews of THE SUMMERLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schaefer has such a firm grasp over her characters, the narrative flow and the dialogue that it's hard to believe this is a first novel.
		The Summerland is a great story with a plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
		THE SUMMERLAND is a rich and fascinating read--one with likable characters (except maybe the killer and a few others), a tangled plot, and enough suspense to keep you up late at night.
	www.tlschaefer.com /reviews.htm (1456 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Team Spirit
		Fiction seems capable of existing in only one ghetto at a time, so if your book is in what used to be known, rudely, as the kiddylit ghetto, then it is children's fiction, no matter what else it might be (fantasy, historical, horror, sf, humor, romance and so on).
		For the most part, after all, the crossover books tell tales in which the joy of story is also the joy of the fantastic without apology, a freedom of children's literature that can be lost at adulthood, where metaphor becomes literal and genre restrictions apply.
		But as soon as the kids flee Summerland and head off into a great beyond to put their team together and save the universe, the story finds its game.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A42670-2002Oct4?language=printer (694 words)

	Books : Summerland : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The setting is Clam Island, Washington, specifically the area on the western tip of the island known as the Summerlands, which enjoys zero rainfall and yearlong fine weather.
		On the great infinite tree of worlds, Summerland is on the boundary between two such worlds, and a particularly destructive fairy called Coyote and his band of warriors are nearby and threatening to destroy everything.
		The novel features an ensemble cast of equal parts that shine and fade in turn, and yet the undoubtedly fine writing fails to mask the enormity and complexities of the world in which they travel, and the bad guys getting their comeuppance always seems so far away.
	www.energyshack.com /us/0786816155/Summerland__A_Novel.html (767 words)

	MPR Books - "Summerland" by Michael Chabon
		(From the Publisher) Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League gathers to play baseball on a perfectly manicured lawn, and the sun is always shining in a flawless blue sky.
		However, the small beings known as ferishers, who ensure this perfect weather, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero—a baseball star, in fact—to vanquish their foe.
		He is currently working on a new novel, Hatzeplatz, and a book of short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
	www.mpr.org /books/titles/chabon_summerland.shtml (434 words)

	A Sensitivity To Failure - CBS News
		"Summerland" is a 490-page tale of environmental peril and old-fashioned Americana, with such favored Chabon themes as baseball, superheroes, fathers and, curiously, failure.
		The hero of "Summerland," 12-year-old Ethan Feld, is billed by Chabon as "The Worst Ballplayer in the History of Clam Island." Banished to baseball's version of Siberia - deep right field - Ethan is so hopeless a hitter that he never lifts the bat from his shoulder.
		A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Chabon was his in mid-20s when he emerged as one of the country's most promising writers, admired for an expansive but playful vocabulary and a feeling for both wonder and despair.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/23/print/main522999.shtml (1368 words)

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		Summerland is an enjoyable read, very much in the tradition of modern fantasy novels with a bit more care and characterization than most.
		Summerland shines when the book focuses on the characters who are often more interesting than the evil machinations of Malek and his allies.
		While Beyond the Summerland doesn't have the constant tension or intensity you might find in George R.R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice," or even Terry Brook's "Shannara" series, it is a fine work in its own right and is certainly worth a read by fans of epic fantasy.
	www.scifiguys.com /newsletters/v7i8.txt (3939 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Books : The Boys of Summer
		Chabon already has signed on for two Summerland sequels, and it was recently announced that the book will become a movie for Miramax Films, which happens to be the parent company of this novel's publisher.
		Summerland is 500 pages long, which might have been considered a daunting length for young readers before Rowling's 700-plus-page Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire proved otherwise.
		Summerland also is as much about character motivation and emotional growth as one could imagine of a rip-roaring, fantasy epic.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Books/Content?oid=oid:46158 (1073 words)

	Summerland By Michael Chabon
		In defiance of the rains that plague the rest of Clam Island, the skies over Summerland are always blue.
		It is a "ferisher," one of the Little Folk who populate the book, who explains Summerland's freakish weather.
		Coyote's diabolical mission is not only to separate the leaves and thus eliminate the galls but also to poison the well that waters the tree.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20021229chabon1229fnp5.asp (927 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Michael Chabon - Books: Meet the Writers
		But unlike his other books, the novel was grander in scope and theme, blending the world of comic books, the impact of World War II, and the lives of his characters.
		Summerland, a departure for him in that it was written for a younger audience, is in fact a direct result of the time Chabon has spent as a father who loves reading children's books.
		Summerland, an American baseball fantasy, is the kind of book that appeals to kids and parents alike, and Chabon, 38, is one of a burgeoning number of respected, big-name adult authors who have addressed younger audiences in recent novels.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=968044 (1255 words)

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		Summerland features a multitude of voices that are usually at the margins and invokes a vast amount of American history and culture, all set against a sprawling fantasyland that is firmly rooted in baseball.
		This novel is one of the finest recreations of its era in American historical fiction.
		These novels* are all worth reading; I’ve left the potboilers and the pulp fiction in the bin where they belong.
	www.queensu.ca /jewishstudies/baseballbib.html (827 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Michael Chabon
		Darling of the Lit World: Michael Chabon's new novel is kid stuff, but that's unlikely to deter any of his fans.
		But Summerland marks the first time that Chabon, who lives with his wife and three kids in Berkeley, has taken aim at a young-adult audience, setting aside so-called serious fiction to try his hand at the sort of fantasy novel written by J. Rowling or Philip Pullman.
		Summerland's villain is a dude called Coyote, an avatar of chaos so in love with destruction that he's trying to poison the metaphysical tree that holds up all of existence.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.19.02/chabon-0238.html (580 words)

	Steven Barclay Agency - Michael Chabon
		Michael Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was originally written for his master’s thesis at UC Irvine and became a national bestseller; his second novel, Wonder Boys, was also a bestseller, and was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire.
		As he says, “Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.” Chabon’s hope and trust certainly paid off.
		His fourth novel, Summerland, for young adults, casts back to an adolescent boy’s technicolor world of baseball and fantasy.
	www.barclayagency.com /chabon_print.html (374 words)

	Bay Guardian Lit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The novel is called Summerland, and the publisher is one of those mysterious, only-in-Hollywood consortia in which everyone involved – in this case, Hyperion Books for Children (a Disney-owned enterprise) and its movieland imprint Miramax Books – wants some credit for the soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture endeavor.
		A métier (fancy word but useful here, since it shares a root with "mystery") is of course not a career, though the two are often confused in an overregimented culture like ours, which worships linear progress, "achievement" of any kind, process (especially if creative), and degrees from accredited universities.
		Writing a novel means going to war, as the ever-martial Gore Vidal has said – against the conventions and expectations and verities of our business civilization, with its movie theaters and booby prizes and tidy careers.
	www.sfbg.com /lit/sept02 (570 words)

	'Summerland' combines fantasy, baseball - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		"Summerland" twins his two loves into an epic tale that will appeal to those who enjoy the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and fans of baseball as it was played in the 1960s and '70s.
		Ethan Feld, 11 — the worst player in the history of Clam Island — is dealing with the frustrations of not being able to hit, catch or throw very well when he is recruited to save the world by a band of ferishers, small beings who are like diminutive Native Americans.
		"Summerland" also is a paean to baseball — at one point, it is explained that a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_94239.html (615 words)

	BookPage Children's Review: Summerland
		Chabon is part of a recent trend of adult authors crossing over to children's literature, perhaps as a result of the success of the Harry Potter books.
		And that's precisely what Summerland is. Powered by Chabon's ample storytelling skills and rich narrative voice, the novel incorporates baseball, Native American myths, and fantasy into a story that's bound to appeal to young readers—and their parents.
		The novel takes place on Clam Island, in Washington State, "a small, green, damp corner of the world." But one part of Clam Island is different.
	www.bookpage.com /0211bp/children/summerland.html (369 words)

	Summerland \| 675-676 \| books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But even Chabon's grown-up novels -- ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,'' ''Wonder Boys,'' ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' -- have an adolescent energy, and ''Summerland'' is of a piece with them and the whole brainy-boys division of contemporary prose.
		Summerland hosts Clam Island's Little League, the worst team of which is Ruth's Fluff 'n' Fold Roosters, the worst player of whom is Ethan.
		He is error-prone, crippled by faithlessness, and nicknamed Dog Boy ''because of the way he was always hoping for a walk.'' Of course, he plays right field.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/book/0,6115,355131~5~0~summerland,00.html (526 words)

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