The Blue Chibi
Cabbage Merchant
you cannot push the river... nor can you hold it back
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Post by The Blue Chibi on May 29, 2007 14:10:17 GMT -5
Fabulous book ~ have you read it? If not, I recommend it. Opening line: "In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini." It's been on my to-read list for a couple years, and I finally got around to it. Chabon's work just blows me away, and this is his best ~ I'd include some reviews, too, but they all seem to give too much away. The one from the Barnes & Noble.com's editors isn't bad, though: "Michael Chabon, the author of Wonder Boys, comes storming back with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a midcentury story of comic books, superheroes, and real-world survival. When Joe Kavalier, having recently fled Nazi-occupied Prague, teams up with comic book visionary and Brooklyn native Sammy Clay in New York City in 1939, the result is the comic book hero The Escapist. Thus begins Joe and Sammy's own flight into the world of a burgeoning new form of art and expression. Eventually, however, the reality of the war in Europe becomes unavoidable for even these masters of fantasy, setting the scene for an epic novel of great depth, humor, and wisdom." I wish they had pointed out that the protagonists are 17 and 19 at the start of the book, but at least they don't give away any major plot points.
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