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.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollinsPublishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
September 2012 |
Authors: |
Michael Chabon
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Dimensions: |
236 x 163 x 37mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound / Paper over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
480 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-149334-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-06-149334-1 |
Barcode: |
9780061493348 |
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