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Laddar... The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (utgåvan 2001)av Michael Chabon
VerksinformationKavalier & Clays fantastiska äventyr av Michael Chabon
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It's like a graphic novel inked in words and starring the author himself in the lead role: Wonder Boy. This is definitely New York, the old-school version. In the fusion of dashing young men in fresh new $12 suits, the smell of newsprint and burned coffee and laundry, and the courage to face unrelenting evil with pluck and humor, Chabon has created an important work, a version of the 20th century both thrillingly recognizable and all his own. Although suffused with tragedy, ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' proves to be a comic epic, generously optimistic about the human struggle for personal liberation. Chabon is a genius --- there is no other way to describe his ability to blend Hitler, comic books, brotherhood, first love, fame and the pitfalls of celebrity, Brooklyn Jewish home life, the European struggle against the Third Reich, America's growing prosperity, and good-looking women who use their smarts and their curves to get ahead in the world together in such a cohesive, complete story. Ingår i förlagsserienPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved, award-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon. A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" ("Newsweek"), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" ("The New York Review of Books"), "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America's finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by "Entertainment Weekly" Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Chabon har ett otroligt detaljrikt språk, på gränsen till alltför mycket detaljer till och från. Dessutom, får jag erkänna, använder han sig av en ganska svår engelska. Författaren har en stil i sin prosastruktur som jag tycker krävde lite träning, men när man lärt sig det fungerade den mycket bra.
Till sist vill jag säga att det var kändes verkligt bra att se en "seriös" författare behandla seriernas vanligaste och kanske (därför?) mest bespottade gengre med den respekt den förtjänar. ( )