Acclaimed author Grady Tripp, struggling with middle age and
writer's block, is hurled into a chaotic weekend of blackly comic
events involving drugs, dead pets, Marilyn Monroe's jacket and a
death-obsessed student with a Frank Capra fixation. All the
disasters that beset Grady serve only to highlight the deep flaws
in his relationships with his wife, his mistress, his drug-addled
gay best friend - who also happens to be his editor - and, most
crucially, with his long-awaited magnum opus, a novel titled Wonder
Boys... The author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh confirms his
reputation as one of America's rising literary stars with this
complex and inventive work of honesty, vigour and sadness, and some
very, very funny moments indeed. (79-16) (Kirkus UK)
"The natural exuberance and extravagance of Chabon's writing is matched by dazzling wit."
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"Grady Tipp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, aging wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2000page masterpiece, 'Wonder Boys'. When his rumbustious editor and friend Terry Crabtree arrives in town, a chaotic weekend follows, involving a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's ermine-lined jackets and a squashed boa constrictor."
Q
"Deliriously funny…Chabon's elegant style, perfectly realised characters and comic vision combine to make the most enjoyable novel of the year."
ESQUIRE
"A wonderfully teasing comic novel."
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