The book tells the story of the bond that develops between the cousins Josef Kavalier and Sam Clay, and the woman who becomes central to both their lives. But "Kavalier and Clay" isn't your average resident of the halls of high literature. TV shows and movies are adapted into comic books all the time Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, almost never. The first issue of a new quarterly devoted to his exploits, "Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist," just hit the racks at your local comic-book store. Chabon's novel is mostly about what happens to the cousins in the years following the birth of their greatest creation, but now the Escapist is finally free to tell his own tales. Michael Chabon's best-selling 2001 novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" is the story of two cousins, thrown together by fate in the 1930s, who create one of the first great comic-book superheroes: a master escape artist and champion of the downtrodden known as the Escapist.
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