When I finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon I had to double check that it truly was fiction. As the title suggests, it is an amazing story of two characters, Kavalier and Clay, who build a comic book empire during it's golden age around WW II. It is an amazingly well written page turner. It feels like a fictionalized history novel, but the characters are totally out of Chabon's imagination.I have had mixed feelings about Chabon's books over the years. Wonder Boys was almost unreadable, but The Yiddish Policemen Union is excellent. K&C is one of the best American novels of the 20th century, and I am not alone in this opinion, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
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