![]() ![]() And Chabon proves himself a master of swagger. In this universe - Archy calls it " Africa and Europe cooked up in the same skillet" - style is king. "Telegraph Avenue" riffs wisely on fathers and sons, husbands and wives, gays and straights (the two teens are just barely in the closet), but it focuses primarily on race and music, especially the impact of black culture on the white mainstream. Brokeland specializes in that era's R & B and soul jazz when these men were young and carefree.īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe - one black, the other white - are best friends and proprietors of a used-record shop on the avenue. Although "Telegraph Avenue" is set early in our century, on Oakland's main drag near Berkeley, it speaks in the brassy, in-your-face 1970s funkadelic of its protagonists. Now comes another audacious novel rooted in pop culture and expressed in delicious American vernacular. Whatever the subject or genre, the language always soars. He has written a Harry-Potteresque novel for young readers ("Summerland") and a grown-up detective tale ("The Yiddish Policemen's Union"). He's as likely to write about comic books ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") as the mysteries and snares of the literary life ("Wonder Boys"). ![]() ![]() One of the great boundary-defying outlaws of contemporary American fiction, Michael Chabon revels in high culture and low. ![]()
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