From Michael Chabon the bestselling author of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY
- his first novel in five years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street in Oakland California. As the summer 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 Goodes 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. & into their already tangled lives comes Titus Joyner the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged. An intimate epic set to the laid-back beat of classic soul-jazz & pulsing with a virtuosic pyrotechnical style all of its own TELEGRAPH AVENUE is Michael Chabons most dazzling book yet.