The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Chabon
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1939-1954
- Setting: New York City and Long Island, New York; Prague; Vilna, Lithuania; Hoboken and Monmouth counties, New Jersey; Antarctica
- Principal Characters: Joe Kavalier, Sammy Clay (Samuel Louis Klayman), Rosa Luxemburg Saks Clay, Tommy Clay, Thomas Kavalier, Tracy Bacon, Bernard Kornblum, Edith Klayman, Sheldon Anapol
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, Magic or magicians, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Escapes, Art or artists, 1940’s, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, New Jersey, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Antarctica, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: New York, NY, Long Island, NY, New Jersey, Hoboken, NJ, Antarctica, Lithuania, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Vilnius, Poland
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is about the history of American comic books, the Holocaust, World War II, American suburbia after the war, censorship, homosexuality, magic, art, and romance. After two highly praised novels on a smaller scale, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and Wonder Boys (1995), Michael Chabon has created a Pulitzer Prize-winning, epic vision of mid-century America.
Sammy Klayman meets Josef Kavalier when his nineteen-year-old cousin arrives in Brooklyn from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Joe has escaped from the Nazi terror by...
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