It would seem like a guilty gorgefest, a sugary pop concoction, if, like pop art itself, it weren't so heavily fortified with all the vitamins and minerals of true art. The action zooms along, with plot twists worthy of a pulp fiction potboiler and characters of delicious pumped-up proportions like the Mighty Molecule (a circus strongman), Tracy Bacon (a B-movie king with a lantern jaw and sonorous "string-bass" voice), Longman Harkoo (an art mogul) and the Saboteur (a sinister self-proclaimed Nazi guerrilla), delivered in Chabon's flawless musical prose and punctuated - Bat! Bam! Bif! - with feats of physical prowess and derring-do. Despite its heft - it weighs in at 639 pages - Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is a speedy, nearly effortless read.
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