Bibliograph

Telegraph Avenue, a novel, Michael Chabon

Type

Label

Telegraph Avenue, a novel, Michael Chabon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Telegraph Avenue

Medium

large print

Oclc number

808806515

Responsibility statement

Michael Chabon

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of 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

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