TY - SER
KW - college students
KW - love triangles
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Michael Chabon
AB - Art Bechstein is a new University of Pittsburgh graduate and the son of a mysterious mobster. In the summer after graduation, Art lingers in Pittsburgh’s East End, drinking, drugging, and falling in love with a beguiling young woman named Phlox Lombardi. Afterwards, in a confused way, Art falls again for a charming young man, Arthur Lecomte. A subplot concerns Cleveland Arning, a highly literate biker and aspiring jewel thief.
C1 - 1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; University of Pittsburgh; Squirrel Hill; Carnegie Mellon University; Chatham University; Shadyside; E. Liberty; Highland Park; Fox Chapel; Erie County; Lake Erie
C4 - Literary; Coming-of-Age; Campus
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Chatham University is referred to as Chatham College, as it was then known.
N2 - Art Bechstein is a new University of Pittsburgh graduate and the son of a mysterious mobster. In the summer after graduation, Art lingers in Pittsburgh’s East End, drinking, drugging, and falling in love with a beguiling young woman named Phlox Lombardi. Afterwards, in a confused way, Art falls again for a charming young man, Arthur Lecomte. A subplot concerns Cleveland Arning, a highly literate biker and aspiring jewel thief.
PB - William Morrow and Company, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1988
RN - Michael Chabon (1963— ) was born in Washington, DC and educated at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine. He earned the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>.
EP - 297 p.
TI - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
ER -