The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

von Michael Chabon

656 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called 'The Escapist', its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. 'The Escapist' makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler?Michael Chabon's exceptional novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.

• Reihe: Collins Modern Classics
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780008706159
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2024
• Größe: 196 x 130 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers