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Wonder Boys

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About the author

Michael Chabon was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 writers for the 21st century. He lives in California with his wife, the writer Ayelet Waldman, and their four children.

About the book

Grady Tripp is an ageing, pot-smoking novelist who teaches creative writing at a Pittsburgh college and is nowhere near finishing his “breakthrough” novel Wonder Boys. When his eccentric gay editor comes to town, they spend a debauched and chaotic weekend in the company of one of Grady’s troubled obsessive students, collecting some bizarre mementoes along the way — including Marilyn Monroe’s ermine-lined jacket and a squashed boa constrictor.

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This wildly comic and moving novel was made into a film in 2000, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr.