Telegraph Avenue 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 As the summer of

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.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 loTelegraph 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.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 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.
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Michael Chabon b 1963 is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay 2000 Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 1988 , which was a major critical and commercial success He then published Wonder Boys 1995 , another bestseller, which was made into a film starring Michael Douglas One of America s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called a magical prose stylist by the New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament.