The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay [sound recording] : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781455882991
- ISBN: 1455882992
- Physical Description: 22 sound discs (26 hr., 35 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. Duration: 26:35:00. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Colacci. |
Summary, etc.: | Set in New York during 1939 just before World War II, Cousins Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clays collaborate to form one of America's hottest new trends: comic books. Joe is looking for a get-rich-quick scheme so that he can bring his family to safety from the war. While his cousin Sammy focuses on creating a new comic book character. What they come up with is simply amazing and puts a dim light on Hitler's regime. |
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Subject: | Comic books, strips, etc. > Authorship > Fiction. Heroes in mass media > Fiction. Czech Americans > Fiction. Young men > Fiction. Artists > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Humorous stories. Bildungsromans. Audiobooks. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | CD F/CHABON (Text) | 34029121509854 | Adult Book on CD | In transit | - |
New Milford Public Library | CD BOOK F CHABO (Text) | 34021124609435 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1963. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English writing at the University of California at Irvine in 1987. Chabon found success at the age of 24, when William Morrow publishing house offered him $155,000, a near-record sum, for the rights to his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which was his thesis in graduate school. After The Mysteries of Pittsburgh became a national bestseller, he began writing a series of short stories about a little boy dealing with his parents' divorce. The stories, which in part appeared in The New Yorker and G.Q., were bound together in 1991 into a volume titled A Model World and Other Stories. His other works include Wonder Boys, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Telegraph Avenue, and Pop: Fatherhood in Pieces. In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He and Ayelet Waldman are co-editors of, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation.. (Bowker Author Biography)