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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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Description: Amazon Review Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses, even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages lurid with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a bea ... (more)
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate
Release date: 7 January 2008
ISBN-10 : 1841154938 | ISBN-13: 9781841154930
Tags: War (2), Fiction (2), America (1), Comic Book Writer (1), Comic Book Artist (1), Immigrant (1), Jewish (1), American (1), New York City (1), Lgbt (1), WWII (1), Novel (1), Comics (1), World War 2 (1), Escapism (1), Nazi (1), City (1), New York (1), Fantasy (1)
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