Telegraph Avenue
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michael Chabon
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781554682072
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; Male friendship; Domestic fiction
Description: In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime.