Michael Dirda (review date 17 September 2000)
SOURCE: A review of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, in Washington Post Book World, September 17, 2000, p. 15.
[In the following review, Dirda offers a positive assessment of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.]
Just how amazing [is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay], you ask? Well, consider: A teenager named Joseph Kavalier escapes from Nazi-occupied Prague by hiding in a sealed coffin that also contains the legendary Jewish monster, the Golem. Yet...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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