From the bestselling author of ' The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland California draws to a close Archy Stallings & Nat Jaffe are hanging in there co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives Gwen & Aviva are the Berkeley Birth Partners a pair of legendary midwives. When former star quarterback Gibson Goode announces plans to dump his latest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue Nat & Archy fear the worst for their vulnerable little enterprise as behind Goode's proposal lurks a nefarious scheme. & while their husbands struggle to mount a defence Aviva & Gwen find themselves caught up in a professional battle that tests their friendship. Then into their already tangled lives comes Titus Joyner the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged. An intimate epic that pulses with a virtuosic pyrotechnical style all of its own ' Telegraph Avenue' is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet & a must-read for fans of Nick Hornby's ' High Fidelity'.