The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

I recently finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel by Michael Chabon about a pair of kids who create a series of comic books and grow to adulthood in the golden age of comics.

As prose, the work is beautiful. Chabon is a master of the English language, using words and turning phrases that are a constant reminder of the elegance with which ideas can be communicated in written form. The characters and their stories are engrossing, and the tight weave that connects them to the history of comics, magic, New York, and European Jewry is astounding.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the kind of novel, in short, that brings out both the deepest admiration and pettiest jealously — simultaneously — in my creative brain. I implore you to read it.

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