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Author Chabon, Michael, 1963-

Title Telegraph Avenue : a novel / Michael Chabon.

Imprint New York : Harper Perennial, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead FD  813.54 C342t 2013    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First Harper Perennial edition.
Description 468, 16 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More" (16 p.).
Summary A story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California, families, one black and one white, living in world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and surrounded by friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime.
Subject Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651
Male friendship. (OCoLC)fst01006633
California -- Berkeley. (OCoLC)fst01205020
California -- Oakland. (OCoLC)fst01206605
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9780061493355 (pbk.)
006149335X (pbk.)

 
    
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