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Book Review of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Pulitzer Prize winning tale that starts with magician Joe Kavalier's harrowing escape from wartime Prague, to his cousin Sammy Klayman's house in New York. The two boys eventually create a comic book hero, "The Escapist". Complex and ambitious. Chabon also wrote "Wonder Boys."