Telegraph Avenue

　　當代美國文壇金童麥可．謝朋耀眼新作
　　一部描繪1970年代美國社會與藝術發展的庶民史詩

　　多年好友Archy Stallings和Nat Jaffe兩家人住在同一條街上，他們同時也是樂團以及事業上的好搭檔。當國家美式足球聯盟的前四分衛Gibson Goode宣佈要在電報街開一家Dogpile零售店時，Archy和Nat為他們的資產可能縮水而感到憂心忡忡。殊不知，Goode此番宣示背後有更邪惡的陰謀正在進行。

　　一波未平，一波又起。當先生們忙著守護財產的同時，兩人的太太也因工作上的扞格使彼此的友誼面臨到最嚴厲的考驗。而Archy從未謀面的兒子Titus Joyner竟然在此時忽然冒出，為兩家人的未來掀起了更大的波瀾……。（文/博客來編譯）

　　The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic.

　　One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives.

　　When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode announces plans to go forward with the construction of his latest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear the worst for their vulnerable little enterprise. But behind Goode’s announcement a nefarious story lurks.

　　As their husbands struggle to mount a defence, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a professional struggle that tests the limits of their friendship. And simultaneously, into their already tangled lives, comes Titus Joyner, the teenaged son Archy has never acknowledged.

　　An intimate epic set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all of its own, Telegraph Avenue is Michael Chabon’s most dazzling book yet.

作者簡介

　　Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels - including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union - two collections of short stories, and one other work of non-fiction.