“Michael Chabon’s third novel celebrates the golden age of the adventure comic book, the ‘great, mad new American art form,’ which spanned the years between the late 1930’s and the early 50’s. It was a thriving time for popular culture, and Chabon vividly recalls the swing music, the pulp novels, ‘Citizen Kane,’ the bars of midtown New York, the bar mitzvahs of midtown New York, men’s bulky suits and the patriotic kitsch inspired by the Second World War. Although suffused with tragedy, ”The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ proves to be a comic epic, generously optimistic about the human struggle for personal liberation.”
Read the rest of the 2000 review by Ken Kalfus in The New York Times.
This book has no reviews at this time.
There is neither an Introduction nor a Foreword for this book.
A hard copy for this book is not yet available for review. However, we can send you a PDF. To request a PDF, please fill in the form below, and if you want a hard copy sent to you when it becomes available, please so indicate where it says Leave a Comment.
Michael Chabon
credit: Image Credit: Goodreads
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and “one of the most celebrated writers of his generation,” according to The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a critically acclaimed novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon’s magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
His novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards;his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon’s most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as “a twenty-first century Middlemarch“, concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004.
Reprinted from Wikipedia.
