Издания и произведения

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.

Grady Tripp is a pot-bellied, pot-smoking, over-sexed, aging novelist, struggling to finish the long-awaited follow-up to his award-winning novel. He teaches creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while battling with his 2000-page masterpiece, "Wonder Boys". But a visit from his rumbustious, bizarre editor, Terry Crabtree, initiates a chaotic weekend, an odyssey, on which thev are joined bv Grady's brilliant student, his pregnant mistress and a beautiful student lodger, and which involves a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's jacket and a squashed boa constrictor. The result is a hilarious, poignant search for past promise, future fame…

Неоконченный роман, угнанная машина, убитая собака и распавшийся брак - вот некоторые из неприятностей, наслаивающихся друг на друга в забавной истории о многообещающих начинаниях, которые пошли наперекосяк. Во время одного сумасшедшего уикенда профессор Грэйди Трипп пытается собрать по частям свою жизнь, которая внезапно вышла из-под контроля...

A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, this novel introduces two unforgettable characters: Grady Tripp, a former publishing prodigy now lost in a fog of pot and passion and stalled in the midst of his endless second book, and Grady’s student, James Leer, a budding writer obsessed with Hollywood self-destruction and struggling with his own searching heart. All those who love Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and his Pulitzer…

Яркий ироничный роман о людях творческих, об их проблемах и переживаниях, о вечном поиске источников вдохновения.