The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
By Michael Chabon
Harry Hartog's review
I read this years ago and it is still one of the best books I have ever read. It has everything. The writing is lyrical yet not burdensome, the plot has twists and turns, and the characters... well you love to hate them and at the very end you fall head over heels. This won the Pulitzer in 2001 and since then I think has fallen off everyone's radar. So please read this book, you won't regret it! - Lauren, Subscriptions
Description
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.
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 tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.
- ISBN:
- 9781841154930
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 656
- Published:
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint:
- HarperPerennial
- Weight:
- 450 g