Wonder Boys
| Year of Publication |
1995
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
368 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Michael Chabon |
| Publisher |
Villard Books
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend, Tripp’s wife walks out on him and he learns that his mistress, Sara Gaskell—who is also the chancellor of the college—is pregnant with his child. Tripp next finds himself involved in a crime involving one of his students, an alienated young writer named James Leer. During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor's dog and steals her husband's prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the starlet on her wedding day to Joe DiMaggio.
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| Author Biography |
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 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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| Time |
1980s
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