MixedThe GuardianJewish mysticism meets Americana in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and we find all this in the comic-book superhero, the Escapist, who is the creation of the wonderful pair of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay … Chabon's greatest skill lies in his combination of imaginative fiction and practical research. His prose, however, is neither fluid nor flawless. Joe's faltering English often seems unrealistically so; some of Chabon's secondary characters blur in the background of comic-book action heroes and artists. But what does make his novel an adventure wholly worth undertaking is the endearing and mysterious Joe, the misunderstood Sam, and their own personal and professional journeys.
