- Fiction, Family secrets, Male friendship, Domestic fiction
The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 499
- Publisher
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9789570848182
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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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