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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Chabon Michael
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008706159
Publisert
2024-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Fourth Estate Ltd
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
43 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
656

Forfatter
Chabon Michael

Biographical note

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue and Moonglow; the short story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth; and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Chabon Michael
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Chabon Michael
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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<p>‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home' <em>Observer</em></p> <p>‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end’ <em>Mail on Sunday</em></p> <p>‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling' <em>TLS</em></p> <p>'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers' <em>Time Out</em></p> <p>'A novel of towering achievement' <em>New York Times</em></p> <p>'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal' <em>Washington Post</em></p> <p>'Full of the kind of exquisitely figurative language and gorgeous sentences for which Chabon is deservedly celebrated'<em> The Inquirer</em></p> <p>'An exciting, emotional, exuberant delight. Read it' <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p>

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. 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 tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.
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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.
‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home' Observer ‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end’ Mail on Sunday ‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling' TLS 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers' Time Out 'A novel of towering achievement' New York Times 'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal' Washington Post 'Full of the kind of exquisitely figurative language and gorgeous sentences for which Chabon is deservedly celebrated' The Inquirer 'An exciting, emotional, exuberant delight. Read it' Chicago Tribune
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A gripping WW2 story of escape, love and comic-book heroes
A gripping WW2 story of escape, love and comic-book heroes • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2001 • To be submitted for paperback retail promotions • Perfect time to promote Michael Chabon’s backlist – Wonder Boys, Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Werewolves in their Youth • One of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2000: - One of Time magazine’s five novels of 2000. - 'Dazzling. Chabon has not so much attempted the great American novel as brought to life the idea that it had already been written – week by week, in the humble heroism of the comic book.' Independent
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<p>‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home' <em>Observer</em></p> <p>‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end’ <em>Mail on Sunday</em></p> <p>‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling' <em>TLS</em></p> <p>'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers' <em>Time Out</em></p> <p>'A novel of towering achievement' <em>New York Times</em></p> <p>'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal' <em>Washington Post</em></p> <p>'Full of the kind of exquisitely figurative language and gorgeous sentences for which Chabon is deservedly celebrated'<em> The Inquirer</em></p> <p>'An exciting, emotional, exuberant delight. Read it' <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p>

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. 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 tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.
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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.
‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home' Observer ‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end’ Mail on Sunday ‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling' TLS 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers' Time Out 'A novel of towering achievement' New York Times 'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal' Washington Post 'Full of the kind of exquisitely figurative language and gorgeous sentences for which Chabon is deservedly celebrated' The Inquirer 'An exciting, emotional, exuberant delight. Read it' Chicago Tribune
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A gripping WW2 story of escape, love and comic-book heroes
A gripping WW2 story of escape, love and comic-book heroes • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2001 • To be submitted for paperback retail promotions • Perfect time to promote Michael Chabon’s backlist – Wonder Boys, Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Werewolves in their Youth • One of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2000: - One of Time magazine’s five novels of 2000. - 'Dazzling. Chabon has not so much attempted the great American novel as brought to life the idea that it had already been written – week by week, in the humble heroism of the comic book.' Independent
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008706159
Publisert
2024-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Fourth Estate Ltd
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
43 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
656

Forfatter
Chabon Michael

Biographical note

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue and Moonglow; the short story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth; and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

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