It must have been about 4 or 5 years ago, that Mike Slygh gave me the impression that Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" was good reading. (He didn't mention that it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001.) Now, quite a while later, I am listening to it read aloud as I drive around on errands and such.
Mike was totally right. Every now and then, a short phrase pops up that hits me in the ear with great tone and I thank him for recommending the book, which I remember is related to his own interest in comic books and their history.He possessed an incorrect but fervent understanding of the workings of television, atom power, and antigravity,
Sammy had never felt himself to be anything more, in Bubbie's eyes, than a kind of vaguely beloved shadow from which the familiar features of dozens of earlier children and grandchildren, some of them dead sixty years, peered out.
She turned now and looked at her nephew. "You want to draw comic books?" she asked him. Joe stood there, head down, a shoulder against the door frame. While Sammy and Ethel argued, he had been affecting to study in polite embarrassment the low-pile, mustard-brown carpeting, but now he looked up, and it was Sammy's turn to feel embarrassed. His cousin looked him up and down, with an expression that was both appraising and admonitory. "Yes, Aunt ," he said. "I do. Only I have one question. What is a comic book?"
Incorrect but fervent understanding !!!
Sammy had never felt himself to be anything more, in Bubbie's eyes, than a kind of vaguely beloved shadow from which the familiar features of dozens of earlier children and grandchildren, some of them dead sixty years, peered out.
Felt himself to be a kind of vaguely beloved shadow !!!
She turned now and looked at her nephew. "You want to draw comic books?" she asked him. Joe stood there, head down, a shoulder against the door frame. While Sammy and Ethel argued, he had been affecting to study in polite embarrassment the low-pile, mustard-brown carpeting, but now he looked up, and it was Sammy's turn to feel embarrassed. His cousin looked him up and down, with an expression that was both appraising and admonitory. "Yes, Aunt ," he said. "I do. Only I have one question. What is a comic book?"
Chabon, Michael (2012-06-12). The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel (pp. 1-74). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Excellent narration in Audible edition by David Colacci.
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Bill
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