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Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
 
 
 
 
 
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In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
 
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The Amazing Michael Chabon Pens a Novel That Goes Bif! Bam! Pow!

Date of Review:  May 24, 2001
The Bottom Line: From the author of Wonder Boys comes a truly wonderful literary experience dazzling-bright prose that continues to thrill after the last page is turned.
Review: If, as Francis Bacon said, some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, then have your knife and fork ready to dig into Michael Chabon?s delicious novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This...
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Comic book artists defeat Nazi villains...
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Adolf Hitler probably wouldn t like it.
 

Dead Men Waiting: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Date of Review:  Jul 13, 2001
The Bottom Line: Passages of astounding cleverness and evocative writing, likeable and memorable characters. Also, too much of a good thing that bogs down by its sheer length. But stay with it.
Review: ?ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS?.
In 1939 Europe black clouds shroud the countryside as hobnailed Nazi boots spread the despair born of ethnic genocide and megalomania.

Meanwhile, back in bustling, rainy New York City, we shift our...
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Complex, deftly-constructed parallel...
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Entrancing story about escape worth escaping into

Date of Review:  May 10, 2001
The Bottom Line: This delightful novel won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Anyone who reads it knows that it richly deserves the honor.
Review: Comic book creators have given us wonders, from a wisecracking man who crawls walls like a spider to a philosophizing extraterrestrial who soars through the cosmos on a silver surf board. It would be hard to find in all of literature a character...
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Authors Michael Chabon
Narrator David Colacci
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships • Humor
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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  Kalfus, Ken, New York Times Book Review: "Although suffused with tragedy, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY proves to be a comic epic, generously optimistic about the human struggle for personal liberation....[T]he depth of Chabon's thought, his sharp language, his inventiveness and his ambition make this a novel of towering achievement."

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  Format: Audio - MP3 CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio (April 01, 2005)
Measurements: 7.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.2 lbs.
ISBN: 9781597371599

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  In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.
 
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