The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American novelist, born 1963. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a 2000 novel by Michael Chabon. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
On 3 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Michael Chabon
- First published
- 2000
- Length
- 643 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 2001
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict, Migration and identity
Is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay worth reading?
3 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 2001) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 57 | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 16 | See the list |
Best edition of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2008), 643 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2008)
- Pages
- 643
- ISBN
- 9781841154930
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 21% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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