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The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” the Pulitzer winning work of fiction by Michael Chabon, could very well be one of the most satisfying novels you will ever read.
This compelling tale of heartbreak centers around two young New York cousins in the midst of World War II: The talented Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Czechoslovakia, and Sammy Clayton, an eager and ambitious youth who believes his salvation is comic books. Together the pair creates a comic empire in which they suffuse their pain, longing and fantasy.
“Kavalier and Clay” gives us a painfully intimate view of a boy torn from his family in Nazi occupied Prague, and the turn his life takes when all his other dreams come true. Weaving in genuine heartbreak to downright enjoyment from its wistful romance to its startlingly powerful ideas, Chabon’s imagination glides discreetly from the heights of lightheartedness and hilarity to the abyss of an emotional death, and then trudges back to its resurrection.
Infused with imagination, the winding road of “Kavalier and Clay” grips us at every turn. Chabon takes flight from reality most eloquently, wrapping rich historical detail around indulgent comic book lore, composing characters that subtly expose our innermost irritancies and stereotypes, and others that trump them vigorously. The author crafts affairs with characters whose powers and vulnerabilities become as dear to us as our own, and casts them in romantic scenarios that satisfy the peaks of our romantic, heroic, and most human urges.
Title: The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 0-312-28299-0
Review written by: Genevieve Diesing
Reviewer's Rating:9.5
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