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With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roths American Pastoral or Don DeLillos Underworld, Michael Chabons The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier amp Clay is a superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras, a masterwork by one of Americas finest writers.It is New York City in . Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague.