Telegraph Avenue Hardback - 2012
by Michael Chabon
"New York Times"-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chabon goes to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted novel that explores the lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white, and the pop culture that surrounds them.
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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, two semi-legendary 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 battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.
An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own, Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
Details
- Title Telegraph Avenue
- Author Michael Chabon
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York
- Publication date 2012
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780061493348 / 0061493341
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.42 x 1.47 in (23.62 x 16.31 x 3.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Topical: Lgbt
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Male friendship
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012001355
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2012, Page 38
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2013, Page 9
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/14/2012, Page 142
- Kirkus Best Fiction, 11/15/2012, Page 9
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2012, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview, 08/15/2012, Page 4
- Library Journal, 04/01/2012, Page 58
- LJ Best Books of Year, 12/01/2012, Page 24
- New York Times Book Review, 09/09/2012, Page 1
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2012, Page 25
- People Weekly, 09/17/2012, Page 49
- Publishers Weekly, 05/28/2012, Page 67
- Shelf Awareness, 09/18/2012, Page 0
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