A review by jgtruesdell
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

4.0

I actually really liked this book. I probably would have loved it if I knew anything at all about the comic book industry on which it's based. I felt for Kavalier and his impotence about not being able to do anything about his family in Prague and then his decent into survivors guilt and his journey back from that. Clay's journey of being a homosexual in the 1940's and not being willing or able to really acknowledge it within himself because of the stigma of the times. All wrapped within the story of the rise and golden age of comic books and their propaganda role in the War and subsequent fall from grace. Which is only now being revived some 60 years later in the resurrection of these comic book heroes through movies. Really fascinating look at a snapshot of time.