书名：The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 卡瓦利与克雷的神奇冒险

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1170L

作者：Michael Chabon

出版社名称：HarperPerennial

出版时间：2001

语种：英文 

ISBN：9781841154930

商品尺寸：12.9 x 4.1 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：656

美国文坛奇才迈克尔·夏邦所著的长篇小说The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay《卡瓦利与克雷的神奇冒险》被称作是“一部以假乱真的美国漫画史”，曾获得普利策小说奖、纽约公共图书馆书卷奖。三次跌宕起伏的人生大冒险，两个小人物携手开创英雄漫画热潮的神奇历程，深受读者的喜爱！ Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic – from the author of ‘Wonder Boys’. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called ‘The Escapist’, its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. ‘The Escapist’ makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape, and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabon’s exceptional novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy, and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons. Review‘Dazzling. Chabon has not so much attempted the great American novel as brought to life the idea that it had already been written – week by week, in the humble heroism of the comic book.'--Independent ‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home.'--Observer ‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end.’--Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling.'--Times Literary Supplement 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers.'--Time Out

二战时期，年轻的犹太画家约瑟夫·卡瓦利在老魔术师的帮助下，从战乱的欧洲偷渡到日本，辗转到美国，与定居纽约布鲁林的表弟山姆·雷一家相会。卡瓦利以惊人的画技，与满脑袋鬼点子的表弟雷联手，大胆向玩具公司提出一个不错英雄漫画的创作计划。这是一场少见的赌注，在那个人心低迷的萧条时代，一切看似绝望，也暗含突破困顿的渴求，结果两人创作的《逃脱侠》一炮而红！梦想的实现带来名利，卡瓦利更和他的缪思罗莎陷入情网。然而，传奇的一页才揭开，无情的时代开了他一个残忍的玩笑。痛苦的他决定自我放逐……

迈克尔·夏邦，美国著名的犹太裔作家。他1963年生于华盛顿特区，先后就读于卡内基-梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学，在加州大学厄湾校区获得创意写作硕士学位。1988年，年仅25岁的迈尔·夏邦出版其硕士学位作业、长篇小说处女作《匹兹堡的秘密》，创下当时新人小说优选预付版税的纪录。他于1995年出版的第二部长篇小说《天才少年》也大获成功，被改编成电影。 Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of stories for adults, 'A Model World' and 'Werewolves in their Youth'; a children's book, 'Summerland'; the novels 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh', 'Wonder Boys' (which has been made into a film), 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); and the short story 'The Final Solution'. His most recent work is 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union'. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Spiderman 2. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their four children.

Part I The Escape Artist Part II A Couple of Boy Geniuses Part III The Funny-Book War Part IV The Golden Age Part V Radioman Part VI The League of the Golden Key

IN LATER YEARS, holding forthto an interviewer orto an audience of aging fans at acomic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier’s greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, scaled and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.“To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing,” he wouldlearnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal.“You weren’t the same person when you came out as when you went in. Houdini’s first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting started. It was called‘Metamorphosis.’ It was never just a question of escape. It was also a question of transformation.” The truth was that, as a kid, Sammy had only a casual interest, at best, in Harry Houdini and his legendary feats; his great heroes were Nikola Tesla, Louis Pasteur, and Jack London. Yet his account of his role—of the role of his own imagination—in the Escapist’s birth, like all of his best fabulations, rang true. His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. Houdini was a hero to little men, city boys, and Jews; Samuel Louis Klayman was all three. He was seventeen when the adventures began: bigmouthed, perhaps not quite as quick on his feet as he liked to imagine, and tending to be, like many optimists, a little excitable. He was not, in any conventional way, handsome.