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Telegraph Avenue, a novel, Michael Chabon ; [photographs by Malik Johnson]

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Telegraph Avenue, a novel, Michael Chabon ; [photographs by Malik Johnson]
Language
eng
Main title
Telegraph Avenue
Oclc number
774863957
Responsibility statement
Michael Chabon ; [photographs by Malik Johnson]
Series statement
YBP Print DDA
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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.1, 17, 156731.
Sub title
a novel
Summary
In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime
Table Of Contents
1. Dream of Cream -- 2. The Church of Vinyl -- 3. A Bird of Wide Experience -- 4. Return to Forever -- 5. Brokeland
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