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The Mysteries Of PittsburghThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh was American author Michael Chabon's first novel. He began writing it in 1985 when he was not yet twenty-two years old. He continued to work on it during his tenure (1985-1987) in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he submitted it as his thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree. One of his advisors, the novelist MacDonald Harris, sent it to his literary agent. It was published in 1988 and became a best seller. The novel, showing the pronounced influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of Art Bechstein, the son of a mob money launderer who falls into a love triangle with a charming young man, Arthur Lecomte, and a beguiling young woman named Phlox Lombardi. In the end he chooses neither, in effect affirming, without quite fulfilling, his bisexual nature. A subplot concerns the highly literate biker Cleveland Arning and his would-be career as a jewel thief. Because of the book's straightforward, even playful treatment of gay love and bisexuality, Chabon was early-on identified as a gay writer. Chabon, who is straight, has frequently been asked if this identification concerned him; his usual reply is that he worried gay readers might feel he was being presented to them under false pretenses as one of their own. Mysteries of Pittsburgh Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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