The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. A towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book, hailed as Chabon's magnum opus. The epic novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics. In 1939, a young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books. They spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives and careers as vivid as cyan and magenta ink.