Wonder Boys

Name: Wonder Boys
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9781480573321

Author: Michael Chabon

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/15/2013

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Chabon’s extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative classA wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction.

About Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the author of Wonder Boys, which won universal critical acclaim and was made into a feature film starring Michael Douglas. Entertainment Weekly included his latest, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, on its list of the best books of 2000. Both are available from Brilliance Audio. He received his B.A. from The University of Pittsburgh and his M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine. He lives with his wife and two children in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

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 st......more

Goodreads review by Dusty on October 01, 2007

For 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 c......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on July 28, 2009

This is the second book I've read recently that involved the main character being an adulterer, impregnating someone other than his wife, and generally being such a screw-up that they wreck the life of anyone who depends on them. But while I hated Rabbit from Rabbit, Run to the point of wishing he w......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on April 28, 2024

The following is a revised review having finished the second reading today. Chabon won the Pulitzer for "Kavalier and Klay" and Wonder Boys is at the same level. The story of Grady Tripp, a pot smoking English professor at a small university, we're taken on a journey to the annual Word Fest program,......more

Goodreads review by Robert on May 09, 2014

On the surface, Grady Tripp is probably one of the most loathsome individuals I have ever read about in literature—he’s spent seven years on a 2,611 page monstrosity that has gone absolutely nowhere and like his life meandered everywhere, he’s come to the dissolution of his third marriage, he’s carr......more