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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael ChabonPublish date:2000-09-19Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random HouseISBN-13:9780679450047ISBN-10:679450041UPC:9780679450047Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Action & Adventure, HumorousAward:2000 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2001 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2000 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction Award|2001 Spectrum Awards Finalist - Novel AwardSize:9.64 x 6.42 x 1.39 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCFN4A45C8
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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 "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.

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random HouseISBN-13:9780679450047ISBN-10:679450041UPC:9780679450047Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Action & Adventure, HumorousAward:2000 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2001 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2000 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction Award|2001 Spectrum Awards Finalist - Novel AwardSize:9.64 x 6.42 x 1.39 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCFN4A45C8
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Summerland (a novel for children), The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Gentlemen of the Road, as well as the short story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. He is the chairman of the board of the MacDowell Colony. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
Publisher: Random House

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🏆 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2001 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee - Fiction Award|2000 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - Fiction Award|2001 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction Award|2001 Spectrum Awards Finalist - Novel Award

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