- Fiction, coming of age, Pittsburgh (pa.), fiction, Fiction, city life, Fiction
Im magischen Sommer nach dem Collegeabschluß will Art Bechstein Pittsburgh auf den Kopf stellen. Und wird selbst auf den Kopf gestellt. Er versinkt völlig in den glitzernd bunten Geheimnissen der grauen Industriestadt. Der erste Roman eines jungen amerikanischen Autors--witzig, spritzig, melancholisch, mitreißend. Die verführerische Geschichte des heißen Sommers, als Art Bechstein erwachsen wurde.
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 303
- Publisher
- Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- German, heb, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9789651321726
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“At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business.”
Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, *Wonder Boys* (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,* a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel *The Yiddish Policemen's Union,* an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel *Gentlemen of the Road* appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. His novel *Te
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