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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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Author Biography

Name: Michael Chabon
Birth Date: 1963
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Screenwriter

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Biography of Michael Chabon
7464 words, approx. 24.9 pages
Few contemporary American fiction writers begin their literary careers with such public notoriety as Michael Chabon gained with his best-selling first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which made him wildly successful at the age of twenty-four....
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Biography of Michael Chabon
3590 words, approx. 12 pages
With just three novels and two short story collections to his name, Michael Chabon has become one of the preeminent literary authors of his generation. Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Chabon c...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Information
2,142 words, approx. 7 pages
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...


News and Journals
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel.(Review) (book review)
11/01/2000: 736 words, approx. 3 pages
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel Random House 636 pages Michael Chabon Superbook WONDER BOY NOVELIST Michael Chabon knows a little something about detail. Writing about the displaced Jewish families of Prague in 1939 at the outset of his...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.(Review) (book review)
02/12/2001: 1,253 words, approx. 4 pages
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Randon House, $26.95, 639 pp) Comic Book Capers With the re-release of the film Wonder Boys and accolades for his latest novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kevaller & Clay, Michael Chabon has a buzz most...
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The New York Observer
At Celebration, Chabon Confounded By Chauvinism Charges\'d1And Hey, Where Was Wacky Wife Ayelet?
5/1/2007: 263 words, approx. 1 pages
“It’d be like calling Groucho Marx anti-mustache,” the best-selling author Michael Chabon said of recent criticism in the New York Post that he and his new detective novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, are anti-Semitic. Mr. Chabon, who also wrote Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Tom Deignan
3,128 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Deignan examines the narrative structure, authorial voice, and thematic significance of comic books in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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Interview by Michael Chabon with Michael J. Ybarra
1,738 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following interview, Ybarra provides an overview of Chabon's life and literary career, discusses Chabon's comments about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and examines the author's interest in comic books and 1940s-era American culture.
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Critical Review by Michael Dirda
1,683 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following review, Dirda offers a positive assessment of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
 


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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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