Wonder Boys

Wonder BoysAuthor: Chabon, Michael Modern fiction Published on 28 March 1996 by Harpercollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 384 pages 197 x 129 x 25 256g A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. Grady Tripp is an over sexed, pot bellied, pot smoking, ageing wunderkind of

Now she’s going to destroy it

For fifty years

skilled with herbs

forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire'About the awful

and Queen of France at sixteen years

’ – Alexander Benn

' The Bookseller

Ranging from schoolboy messages to his parents

The fate of the dragon world lies in the hands of one young boy: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third

family feuds and the complexities of being human – even when you have everything

In the early fifteenth century

his heart always on show' ANNE ENRIGHT'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' DAVID NICHOLLS'A life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY'I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan' LOUISE O'NEILL'Beautiful