“ Telegraph Avenue is so exuberant, it’s as if Michael Chabon has pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of words.His sentences spring, bounce, set off sparklers, even when dwelling in mundane details….Fantastic.” - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Book Review But it’s Chabon’s ear for the sounds of the human soul that make this book a masterpiece, as his vividly drawn characters learn to live at the intersection of disappointment and hope.” - Robin Micheli, People (4 out of 4 stars) “The writing - stylized, humorous and often dazzling - is inflected with tones of jazz and funk. I don’t just mean the showy bits…I mean the offhand brilliance that happens everywhere.” - Jennifer Egan, New York Times Book Review (cover review) “Chabon has made a career of routing big, ambitious projects through popular genres, with superlative results….The scale of Telegraph Avenue is no less ambitious….Much of the wit.inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose. Exuberantly written, generously peopled, its sentences go off like a summer fireworks show, in strings of bursting metaphor.” - Jess Walter, San Francisco Chronicle Telegraph Avenue might best be described as Chabonesque.
“Forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion.
huge-hearted, funny, improbably hip book.” - John Freeman, Boston Globe “Astounding.steamrolls the barrier that has kept the Great American Novel at odds with the country it’s supposed to reflect. He is generous to his characters, to his landscapes, to syntax, to words, to his readers-there is a real joy in his work….Both ambitious and lighthearted, the novel is a touching, gentle, comic meditation.” - Cathleen Schine, New York Review of Books “Chabon is an extraordinarily generous writer. people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author’s buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience-something increasingly rare in our ADD age.” - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story….
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