The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

This ebook features a biography of the author. Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success.

The faster Cleveland tries to ascend, the closer he gets to the sun, and we know what happened to Icarus. Not yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur. He has visions of being a gangster and insists that Art introduce him to his father. Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year.

He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father's mobbed-up world.Ī New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called 'astonishing' by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era's great voices. He is flailing at the world like an inebriated and crazed Don Quixote, and of course, the windmills will win. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere.Īrt Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman's Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's 'astonishing' debut novel, about a son's struggle to find his own identity and integrity ( The New York Times).

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon