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摘要

While Smith and Amis were busy mapping the tangled networks of the black and white under-and overclasses in London, Michael Chabon was doing the same for Berkeley and Oakland in California. Telegraph Avenue tracks the Interactions between three pairs of characters circa 2004: Nat and Archie, who co-own a used-music store called Brokeland Records; Avlva and Gwen, who run a midwifery clinic (and are marriedrnto Nat and Archie); and Julius and Titus, the couples' teenage sons, who are, more or less, lovers.