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    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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  1. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a 1988 novel by American author Michael Chabon.It is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.. It was Chabon's first novel, which he began writing as a 21-year-old undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh.He continued to work on it during his studies (1985–87) in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English ...

  2. Jan 20, 2008 · The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. With Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte. A college graduate's defining summer crossing his gangster dad and exploring love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

  3. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a 2008 comedy-drama film based on Michael Chabon's 1988 novel of the same name.The film was written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.It was produced by Michael London and executive produced by Omar Amanat.Shooting in Pittsburgh ended in October 2006, with the film set for release in 2008. It made its world premiere in January 2008 at the Sundance Film ...

  4. Apr 1, 1988 · Michael Chabon (b. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. He then published Wonder Boys (1995), another bestseller, which was ...

  5. A college grad faces a life-changing summer with a girl and her wild boyfriend in this coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Michael Chabon.

  6. A recent college graduate experiences a defining summer by angering his gangster father and exploring love, sexuality and the enigmas of life in a big city.

  7. Apr 9, 2009 · After that summer, nothing would ever be the same again. Where have we seen that movie before? Most recently last week, in "Adventureland," another movie set in 1980s. If you think about it, after every summer, nothing will ever be the same again. But "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" has an unusually busy summer, in which a hero who is a blank slate gets scrawled all over with experiences.

  8. Jul 5, 2005 · "Chabon’s writing is deft and delicate — almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ activity and Art’s thoughts and feelings to achieve that magical illusion good novels give — that the reader is living the character’s life with all its savors, jokes and pangs."

  9. Pittsburgh, coming of age in the 1980s. At the beginning of June, Art Beckstein calls this the last summer of his life - after which he'll work as a stock broker.

  10. Jan 20, 2008 · Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

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