Book, November 1st, 2000
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel Random House 636 pages Michael Chabon
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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 new book, he offers an elaborate description of the tiny urban homes that were forced to accommodate two and three families.
"In many apartments, there was a wild duplication and reduplication of furnishings: sofas ranked like church pews, enough jumbled dining chairs to stock a large cafe, a jungle growth of chandeliers dangling from ...
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