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Telegraph Avenue is a 2012 literary fiction novel by Michael Chabon, set in Oakland and Berkeley, California. It follows the lives and struggles of two record shop owners, their families, and their friends in 2004.
Telegraph Avenue is a street in Berkeley and Oakland, California, that connects the historic downtown district of Oakland with the University of California, Berkeley campus. It has a rich history of transportation, commerce, culture, and activism, and is known for its diverse and eclectic atmosphere.
Sep 11, 2012 · A book about two friends, their record store, and their families in Oakland, California. The novel explores themes of race, identity, music, and community in a humorous and epic style.
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- Hardcover
Sep 6, 2012 · “Telegraph Avenue,” Michael Chabon’s rich, comic new novel, is a homage to an actual place: the boulevard in Northern California where Oakland — historically an African-American city ...
Sep 10, 2013 · A New York Times bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's epic of friendship, race, and secret histories in Oakland, California. Follow the lives of two families, one black and one white, as they face challenges and surprises in the summer of 2004.
- Harper Perennial
- $16.99
Sep 11, 2012 · A New York Times bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's epic of friendship, race, and secret histories in Oakland, California. Follow the intertwined lives of two families, one black and one white, as they face challenges and surprises in 2004.
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 ...
