num_pages: 240
description: Set in industrial Pittsburgh in the mid-eighties, Michael Chabon's breakthrough coming-of-age novel chronicles the last summer of Art Bechstein's youth. Art meets the witty and beautiful Arthur Lecomte, who then introduces Art to the equally stunning Jane, her boyfriend, the legendary Cleveland, and worldly, exotic, and slightly eccentric Phlox. In the course of one summer, this band of colorful friends guides and thwarts Art in surprising ways as he confronts himself, his family, his sexuality, and the heartache of growing up.
language: English
title: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
titlecomplete: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 27230
places: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
publisher: Sceptre