The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon

<b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York's Golden Age of comics--soon to be a Showtime limited series</b><br><b> </b><br><b>"It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal--smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read."<i>--The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> - Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize<br></b><br>A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" (<i>Newsweek</i>), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>), <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</i> is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. <p/>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, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, th