The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

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.

Editions of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

ISBN 9781597371582	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Brilliance Audio Lib Edn	Date 2005	Price $75.31	NEW
ISBN 9781597371605	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Brilliance Audio Lib Edn	Date 2005	Price €33.45
ISBN 9780613554015	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2001	Price None Available
ISBN 9781597371575	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Brilliance Audio	Date 2005	Price $45.95	New
ISBN 9781597371599	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Brilliance Audio	Date 2005	Price $24.95	New
ISBN 9780312282998	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Picador USA	Date 2001	Price $2.46	Used - Good
ISBN 9780679450047	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 2000	Price $6.14	Good
ISBN 9781587881237	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Brilliance Audio	Date 2000	Price $22.95	Like New

Publisher Notes

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.

Media Reviews

"In a cameo-studded book...that echoes RAGTIME, just as it sometimes suggests John Irving in fanciful mode, Mr. Chabon tells a bustling, convoluted story in an eloquent, exceptionally precise voice....Especially impressive about THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY is its success in reaching for big settings...and big historical relevance without strain."

First Line

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

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