Michael Chabon
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| Original Title: | Wonder Boys |
| ISBN: | 3423124172 (ISBN13: 9783423124171) |
| Edition Language: | German |
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In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.Be Specific About Based On Books Wonder Boys
| Title | : | Wonder Boys |
| Author | : | Michael Chabon |
| Book Format | : | Ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
| Published | : | 1998 by Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl. (first published March 14th 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literature. Literary Fiction. Humor. LGBT |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 32826 Users | 1952 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Wonder Boys
What the heck have I been doing with my life! Wonder Boys has been one of my favorite movies of all time because it hits all the wonderful buttons of writing and reading and being deliciously messed up and being so HUMAN.And then somewhere along the line I read The Yiddish Policemen's Union and I still didn't make the connection.So when I DID finally make the connection that one of favorite movies was really based on a book by an author I already described to myself as "wonderfully inventive andFor a straight man, Chabon is very gay friendly. I know there's been stuff written, possibly by Chabon himself, about early gay liaisons he undertook, but now the man's married with three, four kids. And yet Chabon's smart enough to write this:"[James] looked over at Crabtree with a smile that was crooked and half grateful. He didn't seem particularly distressed or bewildered, I thought, on awakening to his first morning as a lover of men. While he worked his way up the buttons of my old flannel
I read this book after I saw the movie, so I am judging it a bit backwards. I read with a vision in my head of the way the characters were portrayed in the film, and tried to envision them the way Michael Chabon wrote them. For example, in the book, Grady Tripp is a large, imposing man, and his friend and editor, Terry Crabtree, is the same age as he is, and they have been friends since college. Of course, in the film, the slender Michael Douglas plays Grady, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays
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Great read, much to think about, in terms of the creative process, life, marriage, academia, addiction, youth, aging, suicide...it's also a tour de force of tiny bursts of comic commentary. Some sentences just ripple with arch satire, sarcasm, and deft instantaneous comic portrayals of characters and situations, where truth is hilarious and hilarity rings true.I saw the movie first, loved it, and hesitated for a long time to read the book, thinking either that there would be nothing to add, or
Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books. If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for just a teensy bit longer....god, read this book. If you love prose, good prose, jubillant, wild, ecstatic indulgent prose, read Chabon. I just want to roll around in his words and bathe in it like a
Wonder BoysOver Christmas I met a woman named Storm. When she found out I was a writer she became excited and inquisitive. Her therapist, she said, told her she should "reinvent" herself so she signed up for a five-day writer's workshop. She asked me all sorts of questions and I answered truthfully. I told her writing was a great way to find out who you are, and also, a great way to express yourself.Now I come home and find this book "Wonder Boys" on my bookshelf and it's calling out to me"
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