The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
by CHABON, Michael
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988. 8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine. 1cm closed tear to top edge of rear panel, spine a touch sunned, some browning to text block. A very good copy. First UK edition of the author's first book. Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the glorious, picaresque, century-chronicling The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay. But it all started with The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, a coming-of-age novel, written when he was twenty-three and still a student. The book took two years to get published, but no time at all to establish Chabon as one of the very best writers of his generation. A very nice copy of a milestone book.
Synopsis
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a 1988 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The story is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was Chabon's first novel, which he began writing when he was a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1854
- Title
- The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
- Author
- CHABON, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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