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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

Start date: December 1, 2013

Finish date: February 28, 2014

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May 22, 2011 Rosemary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This is a roller-coaster of a book! Starting with Joe Kavalier's escape from Prague in 1939, it tells the story of his comic book writing partnership with his cousin Sam Clay in New York. In true comic book style, there are wild successes and failures, amazing escapes, comedy and heartbreak.

There were moments when I wondered where this was going but I'm very glad I read it. In the end I think it is a story of relationships and the almost unbreakable elastic ties that link us to those we love, e ...more

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May 24, 2017 Tommy Key rated it it was amazing

Among the avenues this brilliant novel explores is how we define our ideas of family and friendship. A stirring and moving novel about the rise of the world of comic books and two men growing into our American century. Sammy Clay and Joe Kavalier and Rosa Saks are characters remarkably drawn. I had the pleasure to speak with Mr. Chabon when I purchased this amazing novel and the signed copy of it I will treasure forever. His writing is sublime, with sequences of prose that are amazing.

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