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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ? The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon. ? A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of... show more
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ? The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon. ? A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America's finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. ? NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize ? Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award ? Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780812993677 (0812993675)
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 704
Edition language: English
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Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it
4.0 Escape as Art
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...
Words of a Bibliophile
Words of a Bibliophile rated it
3.5 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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...
The Professor
The Professor rated it
4.0 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“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 ...
Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it
4.0
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...
XOX
XOX rated it
5.0 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a book about comic books writers
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 ...
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