Pittsburgh 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 The Land Downstairs, which was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend called WordFest, two monumental things happen to Tripp: his wife walks out on him, and he learns that his mistress, who is also the chancellor of the college, Sara Gaskell, is pregnant with his child. To top it all off, Tripp finds himself involved in a bizarre 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 actress on the day of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.
Wonder Boys: A Novel -
Michael Chabon
Random House Trade Paperbacks
2008
384 páginas
12h 48m
ISBN-10: 0812979214
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Michael Chabon
Nascido em Washington em 1963, graduou-se pela Universidade de Pittsburg e é mestre em escrita criativa na Universidade da Califórnia, em Irvine. Estreou na literatura com o romance Mysteries of Pittsburg (1988) e desde então publicou, entre outros, o livro de ensaios Maps and legends e os romances Garotos incríveis (transformado em filme em 2000), As incríveis aventuras de Kavalier e Clay (prêmio Pulitzer de 2001), Usina de sonhos e Gentlemen of the Road. É considerado um dos autores mais originais e talentosos da atual literatura norte-americana. É casado com a também escritora Ayelet Waldman.
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