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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