Michael Chabon

A Novel (P.S.)

Mysteries of Pittsburgh

I am glad I've finally picked up a Michael Chabon book. Overall I've enjoyed the book. At the same time, it is definitely a book that is out of my comfort zone and sweet spot for literature. It's good! The writing is truly superb and the characters are nicely developed in my opinion. As an author, I can see why Chabon gets the hype and renown he does. Truly, truly great stuff.

As far as the content of the book it's fine. I do like the characters as plot devices and I have a special spot in my heart for Arthur. Every other character in the book is so ridiculously flawed that I can't truly say that I enjoy them. I'm indifferent to many like Art and Jane, but the majority of characters in this novel just... suck. 

As I've previously mentioned, this book is outside of my normal genre zone and reaffirms my reasons for not going outside of it often. I just need a little less self-hate, dark thoughts, crappy people, and little more joy. Once again, this isn't necessarily a knock on the book as a work as a whole but more-so my experience of it. I just don't like to read books that are so based in realism that I end up hating the world a little more when I'm done. 

All-around solid book. I recommend if you're looking for a serious story featuring queer coming-of-age issues, this is for you.

Safiyah Young

I am glad I've finally picked up a Michael Chabon book. Overall I've enjoyed the book. At the same time, it is definitely a book that is out of my comfort zone and sweet spot for literature. It's good! The writing is truly superb and the characters are nicely developed in my opinion. As an author, I can see why Chabon gets the hype and renown he does. Truly, truly great stuff.

As far as the content of the book it's fine. I do like the characters as plot devices and I have a special spot in my heart for Arthur. Every other character in the book is so ridiculously flawed that I can't truly say that I enjoy them. I'm indifferent to many like Art and Jane, but the majority of characters in this novel just... suck. 

As I've previously mentioned, this book is outside of my normal genre zone and reaffirms my reasons for not going outside of it often. I just need a little less self-hate, dark thoughts, crappy people, and little more joy. Once again, this isn't necessarily a knock on the book as a work as a whole but more-so my experience of it. I just don't like to read books that are so based in realism that I end up hating the world a little more when I'm done. 

All-around solid book. I recommend if you're looking for a serious story featuring queer coming-of-age issues, this is for you.

Laura Mauler

Will Vunderink

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

Chrystal Giordano

Szymon

Elizabeth Clement

tiff

Taylor

Anne 

John Elbing

Mounir Bashour

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.

Mysteries of Pittsburgh A Novel (P.S.)

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