The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his arduous, nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved.So begins the friendship and partnership that will create The Escapist, a comic strip about a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the...
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One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his arduous, nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved.So begins the friendship and partnership that will create The Escapist, a comic strip about a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. It makes their fortune and their name but Joe can think of only one thing: how an he effect a real-life escape for his family from the tyranny of Hitler?
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Format: paperback
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Pages no: 639
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
Sequential Art,
Comics,
Fiction,
Historical
This is going to be one of those reviews in which the reviewer wishes the novel was about something other than what the author wrote. Kavalier and Clay are cousins, one a refugee from Nazi occupied Prague, the other a kid from Brooklyn. Kavalier is a talented artist and Clay an inspiring writer an...
This lengthy book felt like it lasted forever. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but then I'd put down the book and not miss it until the next time I had a chance to read. Yet when I was in it I was quite engrossed in the novel, set in the Golden Age of American superhero comics in the late 1930s-1940s. I...
“Stop wasting your life. You have the key”. From Prague to New York to Antarctica with appearances from Salvador Dali and Orson Welles this is one of those looong books you dread finishing. The story of two cousins creating costumed heroes alongside Batman, Superman et al in 1940s New York, Chapter ...
A spectacular adventure! I read Middlesex last year and thought about this story in a similar manner - Jewish immigrant families, comic overtones, sexual challenges... I really enjoyed the blending of history and fiction in the story's plot, and learned a lot, just in background reading, about the o...
And it is good. It is also pretty thick book. I couldn't believe I didn't write a review for this one. The main characters of the story are creators of the comic during the golden age of comics where the writer talent is being discovered. The comics they created get popular but still struggled ...
6 years ago
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