![]() ![]() In the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on anĪdventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the Looking for a way to cash in on the craze. Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is Of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the The true magic of thisīroken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, toīecome so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in theĪ young escape artist and budding magician named Joe KavalierĪrrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. Paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash.īut everyone knew that it was only an illusion. Scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a ![]() ![]() Mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be In later years, holding forth to an interview or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos to his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, seal and hog-tied in the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon ![]()
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