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| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
Buy New: $3.98
You Save: $11.02 (73%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $3.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  (598 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1468
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0312282990
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312282998
ASIN: 0312282990
Publication Date: August 25, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Truly Amazing Adventure September 30, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't agree with the review below, after all, the reviewer never finished the book. Chabon's first two novels are absolutely wonderful, but "Kavalier and Clay" is a masterpiece. I admire Chabon for his daring, for his vocabulary, and for his extreme devotion to wonderful characters who are almost always sentimental, longing for the past and terrified of the future.
An epic with heart September 30, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's about time somebody mined the rich, fascinating history of comic books for a "great American novel." Michael Chabon's latest is a rollicking meditation on family, love and vengeance, all set in the 1930s to 1950s golden age of comic books. This novel roams the globe from New York to Prague to Antarctica, telling the story of Josef Kavalier and Sam Clay, boy geniuses who create the strapping Escapist, who goes on to become one of the great superheroes. But this isn't just about comics - it's about both Kavalier and Clay's journeys to find themselves, Kavalier facing his Jewish expatriate past and hatred of Nazi germany, while Clay wrestles with his own sexuality. A beautiful, riveting novel in Chabon's florid, insightful and ALIVE prose - if you liked his "Wonder Boys," you'll love this!
Another Reader September 30, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book from one of, if not, the most talented writers in America today. If you want to be lifted away on a magic carpet ride of adventures, beautiful and hauntingly accurate descriptions of people and places, humor, pathos, intriguing facts, in depth history, and real human relationships, then read this book. It will be well worth your time. If you want straight plot with no delicious decriptions or wonderful and tantalizing prose, as it appears another "reader" does than go to the grocery store and buy some Tom Clancy.
Delerious Magical World of Comics September 29, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
A huge, magical book, full of humour, poignancy, and startlingly acute observation. The language is imaginative and almost musical, like jazz riffs that carry you along new paths of pleasure. It explores worlds of heartbreak, but fills you with delight and laughter at the same time. A completely engrossing, enchanting book.
 No September 27, 2000
39 out of 74 found this review helpful
I tried to read this, but gave up. I can't stand florid writing. If you love florid writing, this is your dream. There is no one more florid than Michael Chabon. Jonathan Braine in his book on novel writing, said that in his highly regarded novels he tried never to use an adjective. Chabon LOVES those adjectives. Hemingway in "A Moveable Feast" relates advice given him (I think by Ezra Pound) to use adjectives very sparingly. There is Hemingway heeding advice that Chabon fails to. Oh, and Chabon loves cliches, too. But he's no Theodore Dreiser whose over-all impact transcends the clumsiness of some of the word-for-word writing. I want to like Chabon. I really do. I think he portrays characters with kindness and sensitivity, when so many writers--like Tom Wolfe--traffic mainly in brutal and/or shallow portraits of people. I mean, I imagine Chabon makes for a great friend! But the way he delivers those characters makes me grind my teeth. The "NY Times" raved about this, so Chabon will shortly become THE literary dude of the moment. And, again, if florid writing, and purple prose, and adjectives and cliches are your thing, by all means click that shopping cart!!
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