Wonder Boys (SAGE Library in Social and Personality Psychology Methods) Book

Wonder Boys is yet another delightful novel from Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon. Equally fearful of both success and failure, Grady Tripp is an aging, pot-bellied, pot-smoking novelist suffering with a sustained case of writer's block who is struggling to finish the long-awaited follow-up to his award winning debut novel. To keep himself solvent and to provide a good excuse for him to avoid his typewriter, Tripp teaches creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while battling with the first draft of Wonder Boys, a 2000-page behemoth that might one day prove to be his masterpiece. Just when Tripp feels that his stunted and disappointing life couldn't get any worse, his manic editor, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town to try and spur Tripp on with his novel. Over the course of a chaotic weekend, Tripp and Crabtree embark on an odyssey across Pittsburgh and through each other's secrets and inner demons accompanied by Tripp's most brilliant student, his pregnant mistress and a beautiful student lodger. Their voyage of discovery leads them to the discovery of a great new literary voice via encounters with a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's jacket and a squashed boa constrictor. Michael Chabon possesses a unique talent for writing finely crafted novels laden with pathos that successfully mix hilarity with drama and a subtle understanding of the broad range of human emotions. Wonder Boys is an excellent novel, I really can't recommend it enough.

Wonder Boys : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9781857024050 : : 07 Sep 2000 : A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY.