The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

2000

It was fascinating to see her face again after so long. Although Joe had never forgotten the girl whom he had surprised that morning in Jerry Glovsky’s bedroom, he saw that, in his nocturnal reimaginings of the moment, he had badly misremembered her. He never would have recalled her forehead as so capacious and high, her chin as so delicately…

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Michael Chabon

b. 1963

Michael Chabon is a novelist, born in Washington, D.C., and brought up in Pittsburgh and Columbia, Maryland. He has also written short stories, screenplays, essays, and children’s literature. His critically acclaimed, best-selling books have received numerous literary honors, including the O. Henry Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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