For the purposes of the novel, Chabon offers the conceit that the golem actually existed and Themes: escape and the mystery of the Prague golem, a legendary automaton-giant created from mud by a 16th-century rabbi. The novel's perversely rollicking first 65 pages, set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, introduce its two interrelated Of Kavalier & Clay'' proves to be a comic epic, generously optimistic about the human struggle for personal liberation.Īs in his acclaimed first novel, ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,'' Chabon paces his story with the throttle open. Although suffused with tragedy, ''The Amazing Adventures The bars of midtown New York, the bar mitzvahs of midtown New York, men's bulky suits and the patriotic kitsch inspired by the Second World War. It was a thriving time for popular culture, and Chabon vividly recalls the swing music, the pulp novels, ''Citizen Kane,'' Which spanned the years between the late 1930's and the early 50's. Ichael Chabon's third novel celebrates the golden age of the adventure comic book, the ''great, mad new American art form,'' First Chapter: 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.A novel follows the adventures of a comic book superhero who fights the evil lurking in a troubled world.
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