![]() ![]() This made me naturally gravitate towards Michael Chabon’s work which also won the Pulitzer Prize. Moreover, it is listed as one of the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is an eye-catching title but something that has never reached my consciousness until I began doing list challenges. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. From their shared fears, dreams, and desires, they spin comic book tales of the heroic Escapist and the beautiful Luna Moth. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep in to the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. 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. in New York City, 1939, a young escape artist named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” ( Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnus opus” ( The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling. ![]()
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