With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of THE
MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH and WONDER BOYS gives us an
exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning
novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy
geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the
middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's
American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael
Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a
superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras,
a masterwork by one of America's finest writers.
It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist
who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque
escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date:
smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking
to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to
freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking
for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art
for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the
comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe
and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion
the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa
Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful
ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the
otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow
of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age
of comic books has begun.
The brilliant writing that has led critics to compare
Michael Chabon to John Cheever and Vladimir Nabokov is
everywhere apparent in THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER &
CLAY. Chabon writes "like a magical spider, effortlessly
spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the
reader," wrote Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times
about Wonder Boys, "...and here he has created, in Joe
Kavalier, a hero for the century.
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