PositiveSalonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a speedy, nearly effortless read. The action zooms along, with plot twists worthy of a pulp fiction potboiler and characters of delicious pumped-up proportions...delivered in Chabon’s flawless musical prose and punctuated — Bat! Bam! Bif! — with feats of physical prowess and derring-do … Many contemporary issues — homosexuality, the role of women in the arts, censorship, anti-Semitism — are addressed, though never with the cloying revisionism that can bog down books that try to use history as a Parable for Our Time. This is definitely New York, the old-school version.
