The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon · 2000 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Josef Kavalier, a trained escape artist, flees Prague in 1939 and joins his Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay to invent a masked comic-book hero for the booming Golden Age industry. Over fifteen years the two men's fantasy of escape meets the cost of the family and the war left behind; Chabon's account of the superhero as a Jewish refugee dream.

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