The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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by Michael Chabon

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic – from the author of ‘Wonder Boys’.

Description

One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called ‘The Escapist’, its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. ‘The Escapist’ makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape, and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler?

Michael Chabon’s exceptional novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy, and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Seen Better Days

Cover

Paperback

Size

639 pages

Published

February 6, 2001 by Harper

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2001),
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2001),
Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001),
California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2000),
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000),
New York City Book Award for Fiction (2000),
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2000)