The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society. 2020. New. In shrinkwrap. Special Collector's Edition. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated by comic book artist Chris Samnee with frontispiece, three single-page and six double-page spread color illustrations. Introduced by Michael Moorcock. 632 pages. 10˝ x 6¾˝. Images from the publisher in the photo display.
A triumph of both cult and mainstream literature, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. Delivering all the thrills of Golden Age comics and a deeply humane story about hope and tragedy – all via an exuberant literary voice – it has become one of the defining novels of the modern age.
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Synopsis
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of the title characters, a Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn-born writer named Sam Clay—both Jewish—before, during, and after World War II. Kavalier and Clay become major figures in the nascent comics industry during its "Golden Age.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3254
- Title
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Author
- Michael Chabon
- Illustrator
- Chris Samnee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2020
- Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Keywords
- folio society, slipcase, comic strips, pultizer prize
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions;
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