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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 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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Pub Date: 2012-09-11 Pages: 784 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US As the summer of 2004 draws to a close. Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there-longtime friends. bandmates. and co-regents of Brokeland Records. a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives. Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe. are the Berkeley Birth Partners. a pair of semilegendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart-half tavern. half temple-stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode. the fifth-richest black man in America. announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue. Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile. Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a...
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"An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story....[Chabon's] people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author's buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience--something increasingly rare in our ADD age."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. He is generous to his characters, to his landscapes, to syntax, to words, to his readers--there is a real joy in his work....Both ambitious and lighthearted, the novel is a touching, gentle, comic meditation."--Cathleen Schine, New York Review of Books

"Astounding....steamrolls the barrier that has kept the Great American Novel at odds with the country it's supposed to reflect....[A] huge-hearted, funny, improbably hip book."--John Freeman, Boston Globe

"Forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion. Telegraph Avenue might best be described as Chabonesque. Exuberantly written, generously peopled, its sentences go off like a summer fireworks show, in strings of bursting metaphor."--Jess Walter, San Francisco Chronicle

"Chabon has made a career of routing big, ambitious projects through popular genres, with superlative results....The scale of Telegraph Avenue is no less ambitious....Much of the wit...inheres in Chabon's astonishing prose. I don't just mean the showy bits...I mean the offhand brilliance that happens everywhere."--Jennifer Egan, New York Times Book Review (cover review)

"The writing - stylized, humorous and often dazzling - is inflected with tones of jazz and funk. But it's Chabon's ear for the sounds of the human soul that make this book a masterpiece, as his vividly drawn characters learn to live at the intersection of disappointment and hope."--Robin Micheli, People (4 out of 4 stars)

"Telegraph Avenue is so exuberant, it's as if Michael Chabon has pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of words....His sentences spring, bounce, set off sparklers, even when dwelling in mundane details....Fantastic."--Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Witty and compassionate and full of more linguistic derring-do than any other writer in American could carry off."--Ron Charles, Washington Post

"An exhilarating, bighearted novel."--O magazine

"A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage...Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time, powering out sentences that are the equivalent of executing a triple back flip on a bucking bull while juggling chain saws and making love to three women."--Benjamin Percy, Esquire

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  • PublisherHarper Large Print
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 006220145X
  • ISBN 13 9780062201454
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages784
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