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the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay! the official website
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The novel follows the lives of the title characters, a Czech artist and a Brooklyn, New York writer—both Jewish—before, during, and after World War II. Kavalier and Clay become major figures in the nascent comics industry during its "Golden Age"; many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators
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In the rapturous, panoramic new novel by the author of "Wonder Boys," two midcentury comic book writers battle evil and celebrate escape in all its forms.
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In 1988 Michael Chabon published the novel he had written for his master's thesis. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was a critical sensation and the most talked about novel of the year — not bad for a twenty-something grad student.
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He creates a fictional scenario in the midst of real history and, with this act of fiction, reveals deeper truths and mysteries that any compilation of facts ever could.
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The film adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay has had a long, complicated production history. Producer Scott Rudin had known Chabon since, in 1994, they worked together on a screenplay that Chabon pitched but never got made.
