The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion—in a...
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The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion—in a blue-collar city where the mundane can sometimes appear almost magical.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062072238 (0062072234)
Publish date: May 3rd 2011
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Glbt,
Queer
I forget that I don't like Michael Chabon as much as I think I do.
This is Michael Chabon's first novel and I really enjoyed it. It's about the summer after Art Bechstein finishes college and before he figures out the rest of his life. It's a topsy turvey kind of summer where a lot of things don't make sense right off the bat, but by the end, they become glaringly ...
Mobster's son from Pennsyltucky graduates from university, dopes around town with literate thugs, experiments as practicing polyamorous bisexual.Aesthetically proficient but ideologically empty. Good first effort from author while he was still doing his MFA, apparently.
here's the thing: i'm always with chabon right at the beginning. i think, "yeah, i'm starting to see why all these people are crazy about chabon" and then my attention begins to wander, and i feel myself getting antsy and i am thinking "aren't we done yet? how the hell did we get here from there?" a...
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