Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay

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 - from the author of Wonder Boys'. 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 tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy; and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay; he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love; family and cartoons.