Friday, November 25, 2005

92. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon (639 pages)

Kavalier and Clay is the story of two men breaking into the ground floor of comic books when the form was still being discovered. It's also a book of the years leading up to WWII. It's a book about being jewish and escaping from Prague. It's about losing family. It's about finding a new family. It's about self discover. This is one of those books I try to describe and find that I can't. Suffice it to say, I found this a pretty amazing read.

2 comments:

Dave said...

My favorite book. I love the ending - as big and sprawling of a book as this can be, the ending makes it feel like a snapshot, just the begining of the story.

Lydia said...

I agree although I think my favorite aspect of the book was it's structure. It actually took on the feel of a serial comic for a little while. Each part being like a story line and each chapter was like an issue.