Title: Great Scott! It's a Hit!
Review: There is a sweetness about this book that surprised and gratified me beyond measure. It is the 1930's, and two cousins, one of marginal talent and the other a bona-fide artist, launch a comic-book character. Their genius idea(based on the true history of comics) is to have the comic books set in the"real" world. So, imagine the drama here: in the first issue, Hitler is delivered a knockout punch!From this first attempt the team of Kavalier & Clay becomes a hit; but what Chabon does that is equally fascinating is take the lives of the creators and turn them into stories that have the vague feel of comic-book adventure and yet feel very plausible as mid-century lives. The writing is so smoothit's like glass.This is the most all-around entertaining book I have readsince Brauner's Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf, which is veryreminiscent in tone and that enthusiastic, yet not dumbed-down American spirit.
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