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With this specific brilliant novel, the bestselling writer of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a sensational novel where the tragicomic adventures of a few boy geniuses reveal much by what happened to America in the centre of the twentieth-century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a good novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras, a masterwork by among America's best writers.        It is Nyc in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a artist who has been competed in the-art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat up to now: smuggling himself out-of Nazi-occupied Prague. He's seeking to make big-money, fast, to ensure that he may bring his family to freedom.