The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A New York Times bestseller. And one of The New York Times‘s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This one earns every bit of shelf space it takes up—and this edition comes with special bonus material from the author himself.

Come in from the salt air and settle into New York City, 1939. The Golden Age of comic books is dawning, and two cousins are about to dream up something extraordinary.

Joe Kavalier is a young escape artist who’s just fled Hitler’s shadow across Europe. Sammy Clay is a Brooklyn kid hungry to make his mark. Together, they conjure the fascist-fighting Escapist and the mysterious Luna Moth, spinning their shared fears and wild ambitions into ink and legend. It’s a story that climbs from the streets of Brooklyn all the way to the top of the Empire State Building.

The Washington Post Book World called it “absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.” Newsweek named it a “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book,” while The New York Review of Books deemed it Chabon’s “magnum opus.” Also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century.

This is one of those big, generous novels—the kind you want to linger over on a rainy afternoon, with the ocean humming just outside. Historical, humorous, heartfelt. A true modern classic worth discovering.

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