London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. NOTE: PROOF COPY. Light wear to extremities. Red and blue lettering to spine and white covers. Clean, unmarked text. Solid binding. 240 pp. Begins: "At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business. We'd just come to the end of a period of silence and ill will -- a year I'd spent in love with and in the same apartment as an odd, fragile girl whom he had loathed, on sight, with a frankness and a fury that were not at all like him."

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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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Bookseller: The Sensible Magpie (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 484
Title: THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH
Author: Chabon, Michael
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0340423463
ISBN 13: 9780340423462
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: PROOF

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