The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier и Clay   ::   Chabon Michael

Fred MacDonald, and The Book of Practical Radio, by John Scott-Taggart; as well as the following sites on the World Wide Web: Michael Norwitz's Lev Gleason's Comic House ( http://www.angelfire.com/ mn/blaklion/index.html), Bob Ring's Houdini Tribute ( http://www . houdinitribute.com ), and Peter Bacon Hales's Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb ( http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/ index.html).

I have sought to meet the high standards of the amazing Mary Evans for nearly fifteen years, and only to the extent that it meets them can I be satisfied with this work. Kate Medina blessed this voyage when I had no more than a fictitious map to steer by, and lashed me to the wheel when the seas turned rough. I am grateful to Scott Rudin, for his patience and faith, to Tanya McKinnon, Benjamin Dreyer, E. Beth Thomas, Meaghan Rady, Frankie Jones, Alexa Cassanos, and Paula Shuster. And, everlastingly, to Ayelet Waldman, for inspiring, nurturing, and ensuring, in a thousand ways, every single word of this novel, down to the very last period.

Finally, I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe in this and everything else I've ever written to the work of the late Jack Kirby, the Ring of Comics.

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