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Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories, ‘A Model World' and ‘Werewolves in their Youth', the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh', ‘Wonder Boys', ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay', ‘The Yiddish Policemen's Union' and ‘Telegraph Avenue', and the non-fiction books ‘Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs'. ‘Wonder Boys' has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and their four children.
‘An adventure story that keeps you up until 4am with the bedside lamp on, eager to learn if the Escapist, and Chabon himself, can free the enslaved and lead them home' Observer ‘This is one of those books that makes the reader want to race through to the find out what happens, while at the same time wishing it will never end’ Mail on Sunday ‘Proof of the abiding power of complex, serious, engaged, but above all entertaining story-telling' TLS 'A page-turning epic, sketching World War II as seen through the eyes of two comic book writers' Time Out 'A novel of towering achievement' New York Times 'Absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal' Washington Post 'Full of the kind of exquisitely figurative language and gorgeous sentences for which Chabon is deservedly celebrated' The Inquirer 'An exciting, emotional, exuberant delight. Read it' Chicago Tribune
