The “wise, wildly funny story” of a self-destructive writer’s lost weekend by a Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author (Chicago Tribune). A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged … manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.
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This is one of my favorite novels of all time. Although I didn’t particularly like one section that dragged ass with his estranged wife’s family, this book has major page turning power and it kept me engaged all the way through. Chabon has talent, and the world should know it.
Grady is such a mess that our reason screams at us to hate him, but he’s so charming, and his language in this first-person novel is so colorful, that it’s hard not to root for him.
The book is very well written but the characters, especially the main character is so egotistical and self-centered that it was impossible to root for him or anyone else in the story.
I loved this book. The view of academia was so vivid and droll and timeless. Definitely recommend. (The movie version was fun, too)
The writing wins the day, of course. Now here’s a writer who can craft a line. Makes it look easy.
Terrific book! This is great literature and great storytelling. Not a thriller or a horror story. This is a fun and engaging story of vivid and real characters engaged in one whacked-out event after another. Chabon is a gifted writer who pulls you into a whimsical world you feel you are part of. It is like a series of train wrecks where you …
I read this book at least once a year. A “lost weekend” about Pittsburg professor Grady Tripp mired in the book he can’t stop writing, weed he can’t stop smoking, and the truth he can’t run from.
It’s relatable to find a pattern of comfort. Grady has gone past pattern, routine and now borders on ritual. What breaks this pattern isn’t the life …
I really enjoyed it, but I think you have to be a fan of Chabon… not what I would call an easy summer read.
The writing was wonderful. Although the book was long, i never even considered not finishing it. I’ve read other Chabon books as well, and I’ve never been disappointed.
I loved this book. Chabon can write a sentence like no other.
Hilarious.
Read it. So good.
WONDER BOYS is a superlative work of sly comic genius. Every page is a surprise and laugh out loud blistering. A standard bearer of imagination with some of the finest similes and metaphors ever created in literature. Chabon is a master and so deserving of his due
This book caught me by surprise. Way back in the day, I’d read Mysteries of Pittsburgh. And a book of very emotional short stories. But nothing else was out there from Michael Chabon… that was until I turned on my TV and saw him in an interview about his new book, Wonder Boys. the interview was great–though I can’t remember the name of the …
Very disappointing after several wonderful Michael Chabon books about a spaced-out writer.
Very dated. Amazing it won the pulizer.
It’s a wonder that Grady Tripp even managed to write fiction at all being that he was so preoccupied with smoking weed and seducing his colleague’s wife. I really enjoyed this novel. The relationships between Professor / Writer Grady Tripp and his self-loathing student James Leer and his horny editor Terry Crabtree were wonderfully developed and …