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Telegraph Avenue: A Novel - Michael Chabon
Telegraph Avenue: A Novel
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“An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of... show more
“An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780061493348 (0061493341)
ASIN: 0061493341
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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aka Grasshopper
aka Grasshopper rated it
4.0 Parenthood
Telegraph Avenue is a major commercial thoroughfare in a minor California city. It is also the setting of Michael Chabon's savory slice in the life of Archie, the half-owner of a used record store, struggling with impending fatherhood, and Gwen, his wife, a fast-talking, hormonally-challenged midwif...
Tiffany's Bookshelf
Tiffany's Bookshelf rated it
5.0 Telegraph Avenue
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it
#readchabon read-along, April 2013; review and link TK
madbkwm
madbkwm rated it
Let me start by pointing out that I did not put this book on either my race shelf or my class-poverty shelf because, while Chabon spends a lot of time ranting about both race and poverty, he doesn't really say much about any of it. The whole book felt a lot like Luther's rant on the migration of bl...
tedweinstein
tedweinstein rated it
Truly insightful, gorgeous writing line by line but too many characters racing around in too many different loops without enough of a compelling plot to keep me interested - maybe he was trying to be Dickensian, but I had a hard time staying with the tale(s)... I lost interest and didn't finish.
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