Michael Chabon

A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY.

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Steven Ovadia

Really great. A tad overwritten at times, but a solid story. I saw the movie a long time ago, but I kind of don't remember it. But I enjoyed this a lot more than I (don't) remember enjoying the film. Although, of course, now I want to see the film again. I also want to check out more Chabon (I also enjoyed Kavalier and Clay).

Tarannum Kamlani

Martha F.

Steve Parks

Channing Williford

Hannah Swithinbank

Stanley Wood

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

John Debay

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Steven Kloves

Michael Chabon's Grady Tripp is one messed up college writing professor - his marriage is breaking up, his girlfriend (wife of the dean) is pregnant, his marijuana habit is taking over and his editor is just about out of a job. Tripp has published a few moderately successful novels but is strangling his creativity with introspection and marijuana - never finishing a 2,000-plus-page novel called Wonder Boys. When his editor and best friend, Terry Crabtree, comes to town and spreads chaos, Tripp goes along for the ride. Farcical misadventures dominate, from a picked-up transvestite to a wild ride in a stolen car that contains a tuba and the corpses of a dog and a boa constrictor. Chabon writes with a wry, vulnerable wit that cleaves open the minds of his wonderful characters while his clean prose keeps the madcap story going so well that you'll want it to never end.

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