Telegraph Avenue
About this book
The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode announces plans to go forward with the construction of his latest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear the worst for their vulnerable little enterprise. But behind Goode's announcement a nefarious story lurks. As their husbands struggle to mount a defence, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a professional struggle that tests the limits of their friendship. And simultaneously, into their already tangled lives, comes Titus Joyner, the teenaged son Archy has never acknowledged. An intimate epic set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all of its own, Telegraph Avenue is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
Reader Profile
3.4/5 · 21850 readers · 474 pages · ≈ 8 h 47 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Telegraph Avenue?
About ≈ 8 h 47 m — 474 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Telegraph Avenue?
474 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Telegraph Avenue?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is Telegraph Avenue in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does Telegraph Avenue take place?
It is set in Oakland (Calif.), Berkeley (Calif.), Oakland.
Who wrote Telegraph Avenue?
Michael Chabon.