Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon by Michael Chabon, Clarke Peters
Publisher: Harper Collins/HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Release date: May 4, 2015 Duration: 18:37:55, Oakland, California, circa 2004, Telegraph Avenue follows the fortunes of two families- one white, one black- as their lives intertwine in profound and exhilarating ways., Set during the Bush/Kerry election, in Chabons home of Berkeley, Calif., it follows the flagging fortunes of Brokeland Records, a vintage record store on the titular block run by Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe, currently threatened with closure by Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback-turned-entrepreneur Gibson G Bad Goodes plans to restore, at a stroke, the commercial heart of a black neighborhood with one of his Dogpile Thang emporiums., The community mobilizes and confronts this challenge to the relative racial harmony enjoyed by the white Jaffe; his gay Tarantino-enthusiast son, Julie; and the African-American Archy, whose partner, Gwen Shanks, is not only pregnant but finds the midwife business she runs with
General Fiction
Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon, Clarke Peters
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Humor, Adults
Publisher: Harper Collins/HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Release date: May 4, 2015 Duration: 18:37:55, Oakland, California, circa 2004, Telegraph Avenue follows the fortunes of two families- one white, one black- as their lives intertwine in profound and exhilarating ways., Set during the Bush/Kerry election, in Chabons home of Berkeley, Calif., it follows the flagging fortunes of Brokeland Records, a vintage record store on the titular block run by Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe, currently threatened with closure by Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback-turned-entrepreneur Gibson G Bad Goodes plans to restore, at a stroke, the commercial heart of a black neighborhood with one of his Dogpile Thang emporiums., The community mobilizes and confronts this challenge to the relative racial harmony enjoyed by the white Jaffe; his gay Tarantino-enthusiast son, Julie; and the African-American Archy, whose partner, Gwen Shanks, is not only pregnant but finds the midwife business she runs with
