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Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys
Author: Michael Chabon
Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and fina...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312140946
ISBN-10: 0312140940
Publication Date: 12/15/1995
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 93 ratings
Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Grady Tripp is a middle aged philander with a penchant for pot and failed marriages, who is unable to complete the long awaited follow up to his award winning novel. His brilliant student James Leer is a troubled you writer obsessed with Hollywood suicides and prone to fabrication and petty thievery. In their odyssey through the streets of Pittsburgh, Grady and James are joined by Grady's pregnant mistress, his hilariously bizarre editor an achingly beautiful student lodger. The result is a wildly comic, poignantly moving and ultimately profound search for past promise, future fame and a purpose to Grady's life.
If you saw the movie, the major difference is that you get to spend more time with just about every character, so the motivations and feeling become clear. Also Grady is no Micheal Douglas, he is a heavy tall guy, like grizzly. In some ways this book reminds me of Jonathan Irving Hotel New Hampshire or the World According to Garp.
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