The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000
2000 in literature
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 novel
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 by American
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 author Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....

 that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It originated as the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947.-1910s:...

 in 2001
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The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...

. The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins before, during, and after World War II
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. They are a Czech
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 artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn
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-born writer named Sam Clay. In the novel, Kavalier and Clay become major figures in the nascent comics
Comics
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 industry and into its "Golden Age
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." Kavalier & Clay was published to "nearly unanimous praise" and became a New York Times Best Seller
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, receiving nominations for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award
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 and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to...

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