“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
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Q Magazine: "Grady Tripp is an oversexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, aging wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at Pittsburgh college while working on his 2000-page masterpiece, Wonder Boys. When his rumbustious editor and friend Terry Crabtree arrives in town, a chaotic weekend follows, involving a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's ermine-lined jacket and a squashed boa constrictor. Reminiscent of early John Irving with flashes of William Boyd, Wonder Boys is highly accomplished and great fun." Esquire: "A deliriously funny novel... Chabon's elegant style, perfectly realised characters and comic vision combine to make for the most enjoyable novel of the year." Sunday Times: "Wonder Boys is a superb creation, a raucously comic yet deeply lyrical work."
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Michael Chabon
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“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
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“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest...”
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“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too man...”
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