The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year. Not yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur Lecomte, and ricochets between a homosexual relationship and an intense affair with a strange and beautiful girl called Phlox. Before long,...
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Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year. Not yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur Lecomte, and ricochets between a homosexual relationship and an intense affair with a strange and beautiful girl called Phlox. Before long, the world of his new friends and the underworld of his father must collide, with consequences that Art cannot control.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340936269 (0340936266)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Sceptre
Pages no: 240
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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