Published in the near-unanimous praise of Kavalier and Clay takes the reader through the hostile streets of pre-and post-WW2 Brooklyn for the golden age of comics. The novel follows the lives of two cousins Joe Kavalier, a Czech artist and recent immigrants to New York, and Sam Clay, 17, Brooklyn-born Jewish writer.
Both have interests common in magic and design that leads to employment as illustrators in the business of novelty products. With the recent success of Superman, both boys are forced to create the next great superhero. They give birth to the Escapist, an anti-fascist hero reminiscent of Captain America and Harry Houdini. The deserters is growing in popularity, but unfortunately the kids are smaller share of the profits of the publisher. Children are not fully aware that they are exploited by their publishers because they have bigger problems to escape their problems.
Kavalier tries to save his family from the Nazis in Europe, while Clay is struggling with experimental homosexuality. Knowing he can not do anything to help his family in New York, Kavalier leaves his pregnant girlfriend, Rosa joined the Navy and sailing home. When returned, he found clay, along with his girlfriend after pregnancy. Kavalier and Clay is now struggling with their new family dynamic with a desire to advance their careers as artists of comics.
Chabon is a master of American literature, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is considered his masterpiece. The book reveals much of what we all want to be and what we pay at the end. Not everyone can be famous, and Chabon illustrates this with dignity and realism, the struggle against the thoughts of fantasy and dreams piles. The character of Kavalier is so heartbreaking, from beginning to end, can not help but want to come to terms with his life and find peace, while in battle as their dominant attitude of isolation and push away.
While The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is large, the epic sweep of eleven years of a novel, it's worth the time to sit down and devote yourself to the character development, despite the slow initial rise.
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