The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Author(s): Michael Chabon

Fiction

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic - from the author of 'Wonder Boys'. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called 'The Escapist', its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. 'The Escapist' makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape, and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabon's exceptional novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy, and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.


Product Information

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author 'Wonder Boys'. 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic. / The fantastic reissue of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' -- winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. / 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' was also nominated for the 2000 National Books Critics Circle Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. / 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' has sold in excess of 44,000 copies in the UK and Chabon's most recent novel -- 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' -- has already sold over 7,000 copies in hardback to date. / To be promoted alongside the rest of Chabon's repackaged backlist.

Winner of Pulitzer Prize Fiction Category 2001 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2001.

Kate writes: This is a magical, child like merging of the fantasy world of the comic book with that of the horrors of the holocaust. Chabon manages never to lose sight of the Nazi menace while putting it into completely new contexts, including magic, superheroes, Houdini-like escapes, golems, and comic book characters, and ranging from Prague to New York and Antarctica. It is a novel of huge scope--and it is hugely entertaining!

Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of stories for adults, 'A Model World' and 'Werewolves in their Youth'; a children's book, 'Summerland'; the novels 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh', 'Wonder Boys' (which has been made into a film), 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); and the short story 'The Final Solution'. His most recent work is 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union'. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Spiderman 2. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their four children.

General Fields

  • : 9781841154930
  • : HarperCollins
  • : HarperCollins
  • : 0.458
  • : October 1999
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Chabon
  • : 656
  • : good
  • : 813/.54
  • : English
  • : Paperback