“Chabon has made a career of routing big, ambitious projects through popular genres, with superlative results….The scale of Telegraph Avenue is no less ambitious….Much of the wit.inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose. Exuberantly written, generously peopled, its sentences go off like a summer fireworks show, in strings of bursting metaphor.” - Jess Walter, San Francisco Chronicle Telegraph Avenue might best be described as Chabonesque. “Forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion. huge-hearted, funny, improbably hip book.” - John Freeman, Boston Globe “Astounding.steamrolls the barrier that has kept the Great American Novel at odds with the country it’s supposed to reflect. He is generous to his characters, to his landscapes, to syntax, to words, to his readers-there is a real joy in his work….Both ambitious and lighthearted, the novel is a touching, gentle, comic meditation.” - Cathleen Schine, New York Review of Books “Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author’s buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience-something increasingly rare in our ADD age.” - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story….
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.
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. 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. “An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist.” -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback - a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families.
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