Telegraph Avenue : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061493348 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0061493341
- ISBN: 9780062206541 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0062206540 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780061493355 (trade pb)
- ISBN: 006149335X (trade pb)
- Physical Description: 468 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, c2012.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Male friendship > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Oakland (Calif.) > Fiction. Berkeley (Calif.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 38 of 38 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
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Rowayton Library | F CHA (Text) | 33625126669089 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Telegraph Avenue : A Novel
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Telegraph Avenue : A Novel
"An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen's Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture--Kung Fu, '70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music--and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.