The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Audio Book MP3-CD Abridged

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Author: Michael Chabon
Reader: David Colacci

Exile, love, and magic combine delightfully in this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a young magician who smuggles himself out of Hitler's Prague to join his Brooklyn cousin. Inspired by their own fantasies, they seek their fortune in the Golden Age of comic books, even as Hitler's shadow falls across Europe. From the author of Wonder Boys. "Jubilant and purposeful, graceful and complex, hilarious and enrapturing."—Booklist » Read More

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Publish Date: 01/01/2005
ISBN: 9781597371599

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Synopsis:

During the rise of Nazism, Joe Kavalier escapes from Prague and immigrates to America, where he hopes to make enough money to bring the rest of his family with him. He teams up with Sammy Clay, his Brooklyn cousin, to create comic book characters who act out the dreams of their creators--who, meanwhile, both become involved with the same woman, the devastating Rosa Saks. Chabon's critically acclaimed novel provides not only a window into the immigrant experience but also a hymn of praise to the golden age of the comics. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES was a New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.

Book Awards:

Nominated for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Nominated for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction

Nominated for the 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction

Author Bio:

Chabon wrote his first short story (heavily influenced by the Sherlock Holmes stories) when he was 10. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, then studied at the University of California-Irvine writer's program; his first novel, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH--his M.F.A. thesis--was published when he was 24.

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Art » Techniques / Cartooning » Cartoonists
Family & Relationships » Life Stages / Adolescence » Young Men
Family & Relationships » Life Stages / Teenagers » Young Men
Fiction Genres » Action & Thrillers » Adventure
Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Cousins
Fiction Themes » Holocaust » Survivors
Fiction Themes » Humorous Fiction » Humorous Fiction, General
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Bildungsroman
Fiction Themes » Love, Relationships & Sex » Sexual Identity, Confusion
Fiction Themes » Society & Social Issues » Pop Culture
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Artists
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Immigrants
Humor » Form / Cartoons & Comics » Cartoonists

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