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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

vonMichael Chabon

Genres: Belletristik Künstler und Musiker

Themen Artistic collaborationJewish identityExploitation in the creative industryLgbtq+ relationshipsFamily secretsImmigration and refugeesComic book industryPersonal sacrificesCreative inspirationHistorical referencesIdentityLoveSurvivalFriendship

StimmungBittersweet, Hopeful

HumorOccasional Humor

RomantikMajor Subplot

GewaltMild

Explizite SzenenSuggestive Themes

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Language

Published on

01/01/2000

Pages

639

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780312282998

Preisvergleich

9.56 €

10.99 £

14.49 €

14.49 €

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