TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chabon,Michael
TI  - Wonder boys: : a novel
SN  - 9780812979213
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Trade Paperbacks
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humorous fiction
N2  - 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, that was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend called WordFest, two monumental things happen to Tripp: his wife walks out on him, and he learns that his mistress, who is also 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 involving 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 starlet on her wedding day to Joe DiMaggio
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