New York Times Bestselling Author, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“The immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist”* Michael Chabon delivers another “bravura epic” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times*)—a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families
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- PUBLISHING HISTORY
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(hc) 9780061493348 - Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper; First Serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Mary Evans Agency
- One Day Laydown
- On Sale: 9/11/2012
- Fiction
- Tr 9780061493348 $27.99 ($35.99)
- 480 pages; 6 x 9
- Model ISBN: 9780007149827
Yiddish Policemen's Union, The
• Michael Chabon’s previous novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, spent six weeks on the New York Times printed list in hardcover, debuting at #2; the paperback remained on the list for twelve weeks, peaking at #6.
• The fictional world of Telegraph Avenue is grounded in Chabon’s deeply researched, lovingly painted pop culture of Kung Fu, Blaxploitation films of the '70s, Jazz, and Soul.
• Chabon has been voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• Acclaimed producer Scott Rudin (The Social Network, True Grit, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is developing Telegraph Avenue as a series for HBO.
Marketing Campaign
•National Media, Radio, and Print Campaigns
•15-City Author Tour: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami (Miami Book Fair), Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Raleigh/Durham, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
•Blow-ups
•Online Publicity Campaign Targeting Major National Websites, Book Blogs, Music Sites and Pop Culture Sites
•Reading Group and Bookclub Outreach
•Coordinated Blog Tour
•Author Website: www.michaelchabon.com
•Homepage Feature and Enhanced Author Page on HarperCollins.com
•10-Copy Signed Carton 9780062215475
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Maps and Legends
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The Final Solution
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"Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. 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
"Astounding....steamrolls the barrier that has kept the Great American Novel at odds with the country it's supposed to reflect....[A] huge-hearted, funny, improbably hip book."
- John Freeman, Boston Globe
"Forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion. Telegraph Avenue might best be described as Chabonesque. Exuberantly written, generously peopled, its sentences go off like a summer fireworks show, in strings of bursting metaphor."
- Jess Walter, San Francisco Chronicle
"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. I don't just mean the showy bits.I mean the offhand brilliance that happens everywhere."
- Jennifer Egan, New York Times Book Review (cover review)
"Witty and compassionate and full of more linguistic derring-do than any other writer in American could carry off."
- Ron Charles, Washington Post
"An exhilarating, bighearted novel."
- O magazine
"A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage.Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time, powering out sentences that are the equivalent of executing a triple back flip on a bucking bull while juggling chain saws and making love to three women."
- Benjamin Percy, Esquire
"A jam that grooves, entertains, entrances and sticks in your head with infectious melodies..[Chabon] is a hypnotizing master of language, crafting fresh descriptors for familiar functions, poetic detours that never sacrifice narrative flow, well-oiled metaphorical machinations, and seamless time travelling that makes the phrase 'flashback' seem obsolete."
- Jake Austen, Chicago Tribune
"Chabon's hugely likable characters all face crises of existential magnitude, rendered in an Electra Glide flow of Zen sentences and zinging metaphors that make us wish the needle would never arrive at the final groove."
- Elle
"Spectacular."
- Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A moving, sprawling, modern-day tale that uses the improvisational shifts and rhythms of jazz and soul to tell the story of two couples..With seeming ease, Chabon shifts from high-wire flourishes.to moments of crystalline simplicity."
- Robert Bianco, USA Today (4 out of 4 stars)
"Fresh, unpretentious, delectably written..For all his explorations into the contentious dynamics of family, race and community, Mr. Chabon's first desire is simply to enchant with words. Eight novels in, he still uses language like someone amazed by a newly discovered superpower."
- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"A beautiful, prismatic maximalism of description and tone, a sly meditation on appropriation as the real engine of integration, and an excellent rationale for twelve-page sentences."
- Kelsey Dake, GQ
"He writes with such warmth and humor and sheer enthusiasm - for his characters, for the rhythms and atmosphere of Oakland, for geek culture, for the mysterious power of music, which he captures with uncommon descriptive virtuosity - that by the end it's hard to resist this charmingly earnest book."
- Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly
"This is a novel rich in story and character, rich in its dialogue and descriptions, rich in spirit and invention - and full of sharp, funny writing..The spirit of Telegraph Avenue is one of union and reconciliation, a welcome, exuberant voice in our fractious times."
- David Walton, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A buoyant novel, written with the author's typical stylistic elegance and empathetic imagination..His prose is as energizing as ever, in part because he's always willing to try high-risk maneuvers up on the figurative balance beam."
- Troy Patterson, Slate
"If any novelist can pack the entire American zeitgeist into 500 pages, it's Chabon. Here, he deftly treads race, class, gender, and generation lines, showing how they continue to define us even as they're crossed. Ambitious, densely written, sometimes very funny, and fabulously over the top, here's a rare book that really could be the great American novel."
- Library Journal (starred review)
"Telegraph Avenue is so exuberant, it's as if Michael Chabon has pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of words. A vibrant affection for a place, time and culture - 1970s Oakland/Berkeley, blaxploitation films and funky jazz - feeds that energy, but there's more. His sentences spring, bounce, set off sparklers, even when dwelling in mundane details..Fans have been waiting five years since Chabon's bestselling novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union..That book's world was so distant from our own that it won major science fiction prizes..Telegraph Avenue is fantastic, but in a different way: It returns to the realism of his earliest novels..Dizzying language, a delight in process and paragraph after paragraph of word-drunk riffs."
- Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A stylized, rapturous novel..Telegraph Avenue entertains with a riotous mashup of comics, kung fu, '70s jazz and family strife, but at the core lie some startlingly sober revelations."
- Zane Jungman, Austin American-Statesman
"While pop culture nostalgia abounds with an emphasis on comic books (a Chabon favorite) and '70s movies, music on vinyl, and a reverence for it, also play a steady groove in the narrative, and the writing-stylized, humorous and often dazzling-is inflected with tones of jazz and funk. But it's Chabon's ear for the sounds of the human soul that make this book a masterpiece, as his vividly drawn characters learn to live at the intersection of disappointment and hope."
- Robin Micheli, People (4 stars)
"[Telegraph Avenue] has a Great American Novel heft to it-probably because, all caps aside, it is a great American novel."
- Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine
"A dazzling star turn of a novel that showcases Chabon's writing talents like a digital TV screen above Times Square..Chabon does love popular culture, but he loves humanity more, and that love is the power behind this sweeping novel."
- Bob Hoover, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A dazzling display of sheer writing ability from the prodigiously talented Chabon."
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Michael Chabon is the Michael Jordan of American novelists..Telegraph Avenue could serve as a master class on how to write a novel."
- John Broening, Denver Post