Wonder Boys
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 First edition cover | |
| Author | Michael Chabon |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Villard Books |
Publication date | March 14, 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp[1] (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-679-41588-2 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 30895804 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.H15 W66 1995 |
Wonder Boys is a 1995 novel by the American writer Michael Chabon.[1][2][3] It was adapted into a film with the same title in 2000.
Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel The Land Downstairs, which was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers' and publishers' weekend called WordFest, Tripp's wife walks out on him, and he learns that his mistress, the chancellor of the college, Sara Gaskell, is pregnant with his child. To top it all off, Tripp finds himself involved in a bizarre crime committed by one of his students, an alienated young writer named James Leer. During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor’s dog and steals her husband’s prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the actress on the day of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.
The New York Times reviewed the novel as "...the ultimate writing-program novel. If that sounds insulting, I don't mean it to be. But anyone who has ever served time in a writing program and gone to the "writing festivals" at various universities will instantly recognize the milieu and the characters."[4]
