runs the risk of collapsing of its own weight. In a review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin describes Chabon's third novel as excitingly imaginative with loving if sometimes windy detail. Ken Kalfus, also writing for the New York Times, celebrates Chabon's passionate. Stewart O'Nan, writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, compliments Chabon's larger-than-life comic book style of writing but feels that the length makes this grandiose language exhausting for the reader: ∺t its best, Kavalier and Clay is a heady, frothy concoction, finely drawn and broadly comic, but in its own baroqueness. The book is far more complicated than this short summary can indicate. As an adolescent in Prague, Joe trained as a magician and. Home USA Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael. Tom Deignan and other critics have observed that, with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has finally come into his own as a writer. The central comic-book hero created by Kavalier and Clay, the Escapist, is paralleled by Joe Kavalier, a real-life escape artist. Sammy finds out that Joe speaks passable English and is an artist. Joe Kavalier, Sam's Czech cousin is dumped onto Sam's bed in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY. When the book starts, Sam's name is Sammy Klayman. Chabon has been popular with readers and favored by critics since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, in 1988. Chapter 1: Sam Clay is reminiscing about his comic book career.
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