Pre-Owned The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel (Hardcover)

Name: Pre-Owned The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel (Hardcover)
Brand: Michael Chabon
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Award-Winning Novel: This novel is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a New York Times Bestseller, recognized as one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels and Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Decade.
Creative Genesis: Set in 1939 New York City, the story follows Joe Kavalier, an escape artist, and his cousin Sammy Clay as they create superheroes during the Golden Age of comic books.
Dynamic Duo: Joe, an artist, and Sammy, seeking to capitalize on the comic craze, partner to develop characters like the fascist-fighting Escapist and the mysterious Luna Moth.
Epic Scope: The narrative spans continents and eras, detailing the ambitions and adventures of the two boys as they navigate Manhattan and build their careers.
Critical Acclaim: Hailed as Michael Chabon's "magnum opus," the book is praised as a "towering, swash-buckling thrill" and a triumph of originality and storytelling.
Cultural Impact: This work is considered one of the defining novels of the modern American age, reflecting the shared fears, dreams, and desires of its characters.

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Literature & Fiction
Publication date
September, 2000
Pages
656
Reading level
General Adult

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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 Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

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

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—soon to be a Showtime limited series

“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly

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 • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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Fiction

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Publication date

September, 2000

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