The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Audio Book

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Audio BookThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Audio Book

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   ยป Read More

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Publish Date: 10/01/2000
ISBN: 9781587881237
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Synopsis:

In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Simultaneous.

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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Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Cousins
Fiction Themes » Holocaust » Survivors
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