By: Michael Chabon

Review by Janet Maslin (New York Times, 09/21/2000): "In a cameo-studded book...that echoes RAGTIME, just as it sometimes suggests John Irving in fanciful mode, Mr. Chabon tells a bustling, convoluted story in an eloquent, exceptionally precise voice....Especially impressive about THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY is its success in reaching for big settings...and big historical relevance without strain."
Review by Ken Kalfus (New York Times Book Review, 09/24/2000): "Although suffused with tragedy, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY proves to be a comic epic, generously optimistic about the human struggle for personal liberation....[T]he depth of Chabon's thought, his sharp language, his inventiveness and his ambition make this a novel of towering achievement."
Review by David Horspool (Times Literary Supplement, 10/06/2000): "When reality is painful, Chabon seems to suggest, escapism is not self-deluding; it is self-preserving....[The] novel is so accomplished, handling with humour and a light touch a multiplicity of emotion and experience, that it becomes in itself a perfect illustration of his theme. THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY is proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling."