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glorafin recommended The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon to me. I had tried to read it like...ten years ago and failed, but back then I was a lot less into comic books and WWII history than I am now.
The book purports to document the story of Josef Kavalier and Sammy Klayman (alias Sam Clay), two young Jewish men in New York who manage to claw their way into comic books. Josef (Joe) is a refugee from Prague, the only member of his family to get out; as a youth he trained as a magician and escape artist, the Great Cavalieri. Sammy's a fast-talking New York boy whose father was a circus sideshow strongman and who wasn't doing much in his life until he partnered up with Joe to go into comics. The book is the chronicle of their life from 1941 or so onwards.
( The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon )
Final Verdict: As a comics fan, it's well worth reading, and if you're not a comics fan it's still an interesting peek into how that world function in the forties, in what is called the Golden Age (for reasons that defy logic, given the general quality of writing and art). I stopped halfway through, but someone who gets a little less personally invested in stories might enjoy a whole lot more of it than I did.
glorafin recommended The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon to me. I had tried to read it like...ten years ago and failed, but back then I was a lot less into comic books and WWII history than I am now. The book purports to document the story of Josef Kavalier and Sammy Klayman (alias Sam Clay), two young Jewish men in New York who manage to claw their way into comic books. Josef (Joe) is a refugee from Prague, the only member of his family to get out; as a youth he trained as a magician and escape artist, the Great Cavalieri. Sammy's a fast-talking New York boy whose father was a circus sideshow strongman and who wasn't doing much in his life until he partnered up with Joe to go into comics. The book is the chronicle of their life from 1941 or so onwards.
( The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon )
Final Verdict: As a comics fan, it's well worth reading, and if you're not a comics fan it's still an interesting peek into how that world function in the forties, in what is called the Golden Age (for reasons that defy logic, given the general quality of writing and art). I stopped halfway through, but someone who gets a little less personally invested in stories might enjoy a whole lot more of it than I did.
