John

A masterpiece. Sprawling across Prague, New York, and the frozen plains of the Arctic, Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicles the lives of two cousins, Sammy Clay and Josef Kavalier. Clay, an awkward misfit, and Kavalier, an artist who had to be smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Prague, find themselves ascending to the top of the comic book industry , battling their own ghosts as their characters battle evil between the covers. A brilliant novel of self, history, and escapism (both literal and metaphorical), Kavalier & Clay has a rich plot with even richer characters. Chabon's world is so vivid and unique it is difficult to tell his fictional events from their accompanying historical counterparts. Plus a special guest appearance from a diving bell-crowned Salvador Dali.

Don't let the 'Oprah' label scare you away! This is Lamb's masterpiece- a sprawling novel of alienation, power and renewal. Read it now, thank me later.

I really tried to think of something interesting and witty to write about this book, but I liked this review more than anything I thought of:"There's a lot of talk about this novel. It's almost as if there's going to be a great big literary bash. The guys who will be on the guest list are a cinch. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield....And now, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Art Bechstein." Washington Post Book World (It's why they get paid and I don't)