The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

ISBN: 0312282990

Author: Chabon, Michael

Condition: New

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

• Paperback book, Michael Chabon, 659 pp. (Last page is misprinted as p. 639. Now that's gotta be collectible.) | Pulitzer Prize Winner. (Was the last page number printed wrongly, as another deliberate design "flaw"?