WNYC Book Club (Mulberry Street Edition): ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ by Michael Chabon

By Mulberry Street Branch NYPL

Oct 6  |  Culture

The Mulberry Street book discussion will take place IN PERSON and ONLINE on October 6 from 6-7pm.  The author will NOT attend the book discussion.

The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community.

The September title is Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an epic tale of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics.

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.

GET THE BOOK   

• Borrow: NYPL Catalog
• E-Books: Check out this title—and even more NYPL e-books—on your favorite device. Learn more: nypl.org/ebookhelp
• Purchase: The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library
• The Mulberry Street Library will have some paperback copies at the circulation desk
• To see all of our previous WNYC Get Lit titles check out our book club page here!