This book is broad in scope and covers a lot of fascinating territory.
It is about the immigrant experience, particularly that of Jewish people who came to America to escape Nazi persecution. It is a war novel that is also about creativity and entrepreneurship. It is a story aboutmarginalized people, whether because of religion or due to sexual preference. It is about family and provides love stories as well.
Officially, it's about two cousins who go into the comic book publishing business when this was a new endeavor, long before the MCU began cranking out movies featuring superheroes annually. But what it's truly about in sprawling Charles Dickens novel-type fashion is making a go of it in the land of boundless opportunities.
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic - from the author of 'Wonder Boys'.
One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called 'The Escapist', its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed…
For a stretch of early pages, I did not think this book had much chance of cracking my top three favorites. As the pages pass by, its charm grabs hold of the reader.
Only so much can take place when a story is about a man who is under house arrest, not in his own home, but in a luxury hotel. Rostov is a dignified Russian aristocrat who is no criminal by the standards of most, but in his repressive homeland, it does not take much to earn banishment. Somehow despite his imprisonment, Rostov ends up with everything that most matters, making us think about what should be held most dear by us.
This book is filled with quiet observations of the poetry of the human condition.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and…
As a writer, a story about an author who has secured the mythical "perfect plot" that will guarantee him fame, fortune, and critical acclaim hooked me from the jacket copy synopsis.
It abruptly turns into a thriller when the true source of the stolen story starts sending him menacing messages. Will Jake be able to disable the threat and maintain his success? Is it even fair that exposure will bring him to ruin when he is, in fact, a talented author who wrote nearly every word of a fine book? Since the origin of the premise has died, why not tell the tale that would otherwise be lost?
This book delivered on its promise to be an absorbing page-turner.
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 **
"Insanely readable." ―Stephen King
Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written―let alone published―anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student,…
Matters of Convenience is the story of a woman compelled to choose between the great love of her life and the convenience of a reliable marriage. She feels that her ex is in the past, her friendship with Marshall is dependable, and the love of James is unimpeachable.
Then, a positive pregnancy test result shuffles their places in each other's lives. Marshall is willing to be there for Audrey without judgment, to wait for friendship to blossom into passion from the steadiness of his presence, and to accept her spiteful decision not to inform James after changing her mind about having their baby.
Matters of Convenience examines the repercussions of unpredictable timing and rash solutions, asking if happiness results from choice, fate, or serendipity.
