The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
4/5
Picador 639 pages September 18, 2000
Two Jewish cousins in 1940s New York create a wildly successful comic book superhero, channeling their dreams, fears, and the shadow of World War II into four-color adventures. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Comic books, escapism, World War II, and the immigrant experience — Chabon throws everything into this gorgeous novel and somehow it all works beautifully. Bring worm-sized tissues; it earns its tears. Kavalier's escape from Prague is one of the greatest opening sequences in modern fiction, and the golden age of comics has never felt more alive. Four worms and a Pulitzer? Yeah, it earned both.
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