Synopsis
Chabon's debut novel, 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh', dazzled readers and was on the New York Times Bestsellers List for 12 weeks. Now, here is his long-awaited new novel ... Troubled young "wonder boy' James Leer's obsession with Hollywod suicides leads him to commit a pair of startling crimes. Thereby his destiny becomes entwined with that of a writing teacher with a penchant for self-destruction and an editor with an appetite for the bizarre.
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About Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon
Born 1963
Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon's most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004. Source: Wikipedia
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