{"product_id":"the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh-isbn-9780062072238","title":"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Chabon’s writing is deft and delicate — almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ activity and Art’s thoughts and feelings to achieve that magical illusion good novels give — that the reader is living the character’s life with all its savors, jokes and pangs.\" — \u003cem\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller that put Michael Chabon in the pantheon of great American novelists, beautifully repackaged as a deluxe edition with French flaps and deckle edge paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like \u003cem\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e’s Holden Caulfield and \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e’s Nick Carraway\u003cem\u003e. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh \u003c\/em\u003eincontrovertibly established Chabon as a powerful force in contemporary fiction, even before his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay \u003c\/em\u003eset the literary world spinning. An unforgettable story of coming of age in America, it is also an essential milestone in the movement of American fiction, from a novelist who has become one of the most important and enduring voices of this generation.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion—in a blue-collar city where the mundane can sometimes appear almost magical.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“[A] very funny and very eloquent book—a book that both earns and wears easily such adjectives as ‘brilliant’.... \u003cem\u003eThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh\u003c\/em\u003e is a funny, charming, hugely entertaining and excellently written book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A very daring, vivid, and exciting book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absolutely terrific.... Anybody can write a realistic account of his first postgraduation summer of growing up and making love, but to make such a story the stuff of legend, as Chabon has done here (and Fitzgerald did before him), takes something close to genius.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astonishing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimply, the best first novel I’ve read in years. ... It will find its place beside \u003cem\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Forche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thoroughly wonderful novel. ... [It] did two things no book had done for me in a long time: it made me feel good and it took me completely by surprise. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Leavitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astonishing…. The voice of a young writer with tremendous skill as he discovers, joyously, just what his words can do.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlice McDermott, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chabon writes with unusual sensitivity. His beautifully realized characters are revealed through the perfect pitch of his dialogue.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChabon’s writing is deft and delicate -- almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ acticity and Art’s thoughts and feelings to achieve that magical illusion good novels give -- that the reader is living the character’s life with all its savors, jokes and pangs. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Remarkable. ... What makes this book—and Chabon—worth our attentiation is Chabon has chosen not merely to record all the ills of an oversexed, overindulged generation with nowhere to go but to bed or to a bar; he has chosen to explore, to enter this world and try to find what makes it work, why love and friendship choose to visit some, deny others. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe quiet lushness of both the concept and the language are typical of Chabon’s fresh, convincing style. What makes the novel extraordinary, however, is the exactness and care with which he manipulates such images and patterns of imagery.... Making a reader experience again a sense of endless possibility is one of the most satisfying and quintessentially American things an American Bildungsroman can do. Chabon’s \u003cem\u003eThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh\u003c\/em\u003e adds to the canon one of the rare novels actually able to do it. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s a lot of talk about this novel. It’s almost as if there’s going to be a great big literary bash. The guys who will be on the guest list are a cinch. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield.... 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