Wonder Boys: A Novel - Softcover

Chabon, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312140940 ISBN 13: 9780312140946

Publisher: Picador, 1995

Synopsis

Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book and a purpose to his life.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Chabon is the author of the novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and two story collections, including Werewolves in Their Youth. He lives with his family in the Bay Area, California.

From AudioFile:

American colleges are favorable locales for ghastly event and hair-tearing circumstance. There is, for instance, a good deal of pleasure to be had out of professor and past-prodigy Grady Tripp's awful life, as portrayed by Michael Chabon in WONDER BOYS. There is a certain amount of slapstick here, but it's balanced by Chabon's superb portrait of a gale-force mid-life crisis, a soul-destroying albatross of an unfinished novel and the mind-numbing inconsequence of writers' conferences. David Colacci sounds a little starved for oxygen in his reading, but that's not exactly out of keeping with Grady Tripp's personal gestalt. K.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312140940
• ISBN 13: 9780312140946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384