- Fiction, History, Jews, Khazars
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books.
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Nostalgic, relentless, epic and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH, Random House Publishing Group, Ulverscroft
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- French, Dutch, Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9788994026305
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Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, *Wonder Boys* (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,* a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel *The Yiddish Policemen's Union,* an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel *Gentlemen of the Road* appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. His novel *Te
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