Wonder Boys: A Novel
 

Wonder Boys: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)

by Michael Chabon

Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book... (read more)

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I've no idea why I've just gotten around to Wonder Boys but it turned out to be like a scrumptious piece of candy that I'd inadvertently saved for later. Chabon's novel works in so many ways: for the would-be writers among us, there's Grady Tripp's inability to finish his novel; for those of us who foul up intimate relationships, there are Tripp's failed marriages, adulterous forays and reluctance to commit; for those of us whose friends range from the needy to the zany, there are Leer and...

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