The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Michael Chabon (Author), David Colacci (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2001

It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book.

Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and the otherworldly Mistress of the Night, Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The golden age of comic books has begun, even as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a stunning novel of endless comic invention and unforgettable characters, written in the exhilarating prose that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to Cheever and Nabokov. In Joe Kavalier, Chabon has created a hero for the century.

Listening Length

26 hours and 20 minutes
Author

Michael Chabon
Narrator

David Colacci
Audible release date

June 12 2012
Language

English
Publisher

Brilliance Audio
ASIN

B072FF6YRG
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	26 hours and 20 minutes
Author	Michael Chabon
Narrator	David Colacci
Audible.ca Release Date	June 12 2012
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B072FF6YRG
Best Sellers Rank	#9,756 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #120 in Humorous Fiction & Satire #510 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #517 in Humorous

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Drew G

Terrificly engaging story

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 1, 2022

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This is one of the best books I've read
Starts a little slowly, but once it kicks in the pages fly by
A true masterpiece by a great author
Well deserving of the Pulitzer prize

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dean w

One of the best written novels

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 17, 2016

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I'm 60 yo man, and have read just about every kind of novel, but I would say, this novel was one of the best I've ever read.I've seen other novels get a lot of 5 stars, but turned out to be trash. Examples: the gone girl, girl on a train,the snow child. I'm sure they were reviewed by 20 yo females ,who haven't a clue about life in general,like the Kardashians or the Paris Hiltons of the world,who haven't a clue what suffering or hardship really is. If a person doesn't love this novel, they should stick to harlequin romance books.

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johnny sea ranger

Couldn't get into it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 27, 2021

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I am not sure what it was. i couldn't distinguish the characters from each other and they lacked life. but some may like it.

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abaabaaa

Great read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 14, 2013

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I read this book in high school after taking it out of my library. I never really had the chance to buy it until now. I really enjoyed it back in high school, and will enjoy re-reading it now (~10 years later).

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Mike

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2018

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Good book but a bit too long and repetitive.

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Adam W.

Wonderful Book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 22, 2017

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Absolutely immersive reading experience. A pure delight! Very few books I read get 5 stars but this one stands out as the best one I've read in the last year.

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Epatha Lyons

Chabon spins an epic tale of adventure and love. We grow in understanding and awareness as the ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 24, 2014

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Superman has a side kick and his name is Clay.

Chabon spins an epic tale of adventure and love.
We grow in understanding and awareness as the characters themselves
confront their fears.

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Robert Price

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 25, 2016

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best book I've read this year - and I've read some good ones

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Saxum

Story spoilt by graphic sexual vulgarity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 6, 2019

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I purchased this book because it was recommended to me. The story would have been fantastic but for the unnecessary vulgarities connected with the homosexuality of Clay. I stopped reading during Part IV Chapter 15 when Clay is sexually assaulted and raped by an FBI agent; this serves no purpose and readers don’t need to know that “The bitter taste of Agent Wyche’s semen was in Sammy’s mouth, along with the putrid sweet flavor of his own rectum...” This pointless, pornograhic vulgarity spoilt an otherwise decent story.

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William Jordan

Long, episodic and inventive - but not ultimately that engaging

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 25, 2015

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Kavalier and Clay are cousins who first meet as (very) young men in 1939. Kavalier has escaped from Prague (we learn the details) while Clay's background is also sketched: polio and a largely absent father. They work in the comic book business with great success and form their first attachments to others. War comes and Kavalier serves as a radio operator in the Antarctic. They are finally reunited in the McCarthyite 1950s.

The novel is highly episodic but with recurring themes notably magic and escapist artistry. It's highly inventive and always keeps you guessing - and full of clever things. If I didn't ultimately warm to it, that's because I think I found the behaviours and decision taking of the central characters very hard to fathom. Perhaps we are not meant to understand Jisef but just go along for the ride...

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Kym Hamer

A great adventure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2017

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Last year I booked to attend an interview with Michael Chabon at the British Library tomorrow night and wanted to read something he'd written before I went. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won Chabon the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001 and it was absolutely fantastic!

Josef Kavalier escapes from Czechoslovakia at the start of WWII and arrives at the house of his aunt and cousin Ethel and Sam Clayman in New York with revenge against the Nazis in his heart and extraordinary talent in his fingertips. The novel traces the cousins' lives through their growing friendship and their artistic partnership in the era of comic books during the 1940s and 50s. Chabon cleverly switches between chapters that explore the relationship between the two cousins and those that tell the story from one or the other's point of view in immersive and wonderful detail - I thought that this created a really rich and layered story with believably flawed characters. Chabon maintains the momentum throughout as well and despite this being a long read (600+ pages of close type), I felt utterly compelled to turn page after page after page. A great literary adventure.

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gerardpeter

Pulitzer Prize?!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2023

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This was recommended by a teacher on a pop culture course I did. She said it captured the world of the early comic book writers of 1940s America. It does, but interesting material is submerged in irrelevant detail. The author believes a waterfall of trivial facts engages the reader and creates a convincing atmosphere.
I could not finish it.

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The Great Escape

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 20, 2015

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This is a wonderful read, a top notch yarn about escape and people bound by their chains. Joe Kavalier escapes from the Nazis in the coffin of the Prague Golem, and winds up in Brooklyn. He befriends his cousin Sam, and the two of them create a comic book character, the Escapist to fight the Nazis for them.

Having read it over a decade ago, I did not recall all the plot points, so it was very enjoyable throughout. You can read it as a ripping yarn, an analogy for the plight of Jews during and after the war, and not worry too much about how deep it is. For me. this is Chabon's second best book, behind the recent Telegraph Avenue - which is better written, and just as entertaining.

Chabon's three early books have a homosexual character and storyline, and the one is K&C is central to the plot. I am not sure why he does this, but I am glad he doesn't do it anymore. It does not detract in any way from the tale, but it is peculiar that he felt compelled to include this 'twist.' Here, it makes sense.

For my money, this would make an amazing film, but it would be a long and bumpy one. Perhaps not, better as a book. If you haven't read it, you won't be disappointed, but you must be patient. It's long.

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