The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics soon to be a Showtime limited series "It's absolutely gosh wow, super colossal smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read." The Washington Post Book World Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly Finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics--soon to be a Showtime limited series

"It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal--smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read."--The Washington Post Book World

Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly - Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939.

A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink.

Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America's finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age.

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Published: 09/19/2000
ISBN: 9780679450047
Pages: 656
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.64h x 6.42w x 1.39d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Spectrum Awards - Finalist
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2000 pg. 88
Booklist 08/01/2000 pg. 2074
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2000 pg. 44
Newsweek 09/04/2000 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2000 pg. 1214
Time 09/25/2000 pg. 104
New York Times 09/24/2000 pg. 8
Entertainment Weekly 09/29/2000 pg. 123
Library Journal 10/15/2000 pg. 100
Time 12/18/2000 pg. 93
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 66
Entertainment Weekly 12/22/2000 pg. 136
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2001 pg. 857
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2001 pg. 53
Entertainment Weekly 04/23/2001 pg. 111
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2000
Vanity Fair 12/01/2007 pg. 146
Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 79
Entertainment Weekly 11/25/2011 pg. 76
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 101

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 49823 / Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Reading Level: 7.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 38