In the canon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 2000
- Pages
- Pages 640
Two Jewish cousins in New York, one a trained escape artist who fled occupied Prague, invent a costumed superhero and ride the wartime comic-book boom, while he spends years atoning for the family he could not get out of Europe.
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.