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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Book
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Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author 'Wonder Boys'. '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.
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One night in 1939 Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom his arduous and nerve-wracking escape from Prague finally achieved - with the help of his mentor the master illusionist Kornblum. But little does he realise that this uneasy first meeting is the start of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. For Sam Joe's formidable artistic skills are a chance to liberate them both from lives as inventory clerks at the Empire Novelties Incorporated Company. Together they create a comic strip called The Escapist its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world with his Golden Key. The Escapist makes them their fortune and their name but as the situation worsens in Europe Joe can only think of one thing. How can he effect a real-life escape and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabon's exceptional new 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. Their story which ranges from the heady heights of the American Dream to the desperation and grief of the Second World War and which journeys from New York and Czechoslovakia to the Arctic Circle will live on in the mind of every reader long after the final page is turned.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9781841154930 : : 02 Jul 2001 : 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'.
- 1841154938
- 9781841154930
- Michael Chabon
- 7 January 2008
- Fourth Estate
- Paperback (Book)
- 656
- (Reissue)
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