In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.

This novel is a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, making it a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.