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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2001
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a stunning novel of endless comic invention and unforgettable characters, written in the exhilarating prose that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to Cheever and Nabokov. In Joe Kavalier, Chabon has created a hero for the century.
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- spoon579
- 12-02-2022
great story and very well performed
highly recommend this terrific story. very well written and excellently performed for audio.
had me engaged from start to finish.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-02-2021
What a way with words!
The story is terrific, the characters are wonderful, but what really stands out is Chabon's ability to capture the subtle beauty of a moment. I found myself getting frustrated at times when I wanted the story to progress faster, but quickly realised there's a lot of gold in the pauses here.
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- Daryl Leslie Mahon
- 09-12-2022
Great story and characters!
It’s a great story to start with and the narrator took it to a higher level again!
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