Super book, especially for anyone with a fondness for old comics. Kavalier & Clay are a “Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn-born writer named Sam Clay—both Jewish—before, during, and after World War II.”
The writing is clean. Simple.
The plot fascinating and never predictable. I swear I could believe it was a true story.
Author Michael Chabon is widely considered one of the best working today. Though this book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001, that meant nothing to me. I got it as an MP3 from the library on recommendation from Downtown Ronnie. (Yes, he’s still alive, though almost 50 now.)
Unfortunately the audio was abridged. I want it all, so I plan to get the dead tree version as well.
Highly recommended as a Christmas Festivus gift.
The most famous super hero of the fictional Kavalier & Clay was called “The Escapist”. In 2004 Chabon collaborated on turning the character into a real comic. Life imitated art.
Rick McCharles 
I have read this book, the dead tree version. Excellent. Kinda snuck up on me. Really good. I like it when a book does that.
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