![]() Here's Chabon discussing the 10-year process of conceiving and writing the book. New York Times Book Review (by fellow Pulitzer fiction winner Jennifer Egan). ![]() Hit the forward arrow button on the tool bar to keep reading. You can read whole chunks of the novel on Google Books. But when ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode announces his plan to build a megastore nearby, the duo fears that it will mean certain death for their small business. There is much here to recommend, but then, there is much here, period, including but not limited to: blackmail, infidelity, first love, kung fu, midwifery, a Barack Obama cameo and an enormously phallic black zeppelin, all presented in a manner as loose and tension-free as a stoner's wee-hours disquisition on why his favorite album totally rules, man. Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are longtime friends and co-regents of a used record store. ![]() Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue is an agreeable if ultimately frustrating shaggy-dog tale of a novel that slips its leash and lopes its discursive and distinctly unhurried way through the unkempt backyards of its characters' lives. ![]() Telegraph Avenue, which he discussed on KQED Public Radio's Forum show ( archive here later), is set "in a neighborhood that straddles Berkeley and Oakland," as Glen Weldon's NPR review notes. Berkeley novelist Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, has a new book out today. ![]()
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