![]() After Wonder Boys, he began looking to the world of the golden age comic book writers as a venue to explore Jewishness and masculinity. His 1995 novel, Wonder Boys, about a frustrated professor, was adapted by Hollywood into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey, Jr.Īn avid comic book reader as a child, Chabon gave up comics at the age of 15 to pursue "serious" reading. He spent the next five years writing a novel about baseball and architecture, which was never published. About the Authorīorn in Washington, DC in 1963, Michael Chabon was in the Creative Writing program at UC Irvine when his master's thesis, a story about sexual and intellectual coming-of-age, became the bestselling novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988). The novel traces the two cousins from 1939 to 1954 as they break into publishing and confront love, war, and loss. ![]() ![]() Josef Kavalier is an apprentice magician and an artist who escapes Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin along with the Golem of Prague. Sammy Klayman is a young man from Brooklyn with a love for pulp fiction and comic books, and is struggling with his sexual identity. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a novel about magic, manhood, superheroes, and growing up Jewish in America in the 1930s and 1940s. (Sammy Klayman to Josef Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, pg. Superman, you don't think he's Jewish?Ĭoming over from the old country, changing his name like that.Ĭlark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself."
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