The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel [B1451]

2000 PB with minor wear. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics. "It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal-smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read."-The Washington Post Book World. One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Decade. Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century.

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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Really really excellent. It was a very long read, Chabon's writing is dense and full of americanisms and references, at first I was searching up every new word, but at some interminable point and I gave up and let the sharp dialogue and witty descriptions wash over me, it was really immersive. It did an excellent job of placing you in 30s nyc, and l adored that it tread the line between fiction and reality really deftly."; "Love me a big well written story. I've wanted to read this book for a long time and finally got to it. Well worth the self imposed wait."; "This book is rich and detailed and plot heavy and character driven and I just really fell in love with it. Michael Chabon is famously a very good writer! Don't like the ~700 pages worry you, it is intensely readable and it was hard to put down."; "Incredibly well written. I had to look words up in every chapter. I didn't know anything about the comic book world or how it fit into World War Two. Fascinating and beautiful immersive novel. Blew me away. I can't believe I'd never heard of this author before."