'He walked along Eighth Street, over to Christopher, then to the river, threading his way like a pickpocket through the crowds just off the ferryboats from New Jersey: taut-jawed men in stiff hats and suits and obsidian shoes, newspapers pinned under their arms brusque, brick-lipped, hard-heeled women in floral dresses. Just to be on the safe side and provide some context, here is the whole sentence: Is it more like they are stomping so hard because they are brusque? The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins, Czech artist Joe Kavalier and Brooklyn -born writer Sammy Clay, before, during, and after World War II. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The hard-heeled part - does it mean that their heels are rough, in the sense that they are hurrying, hard-working women, etc., hence their cracked heels though we can't know that just from looking at them on the street. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys. Taut-jawed men - does it mean that they are stern looking, that their facial expression is tight and tense?īrick-lipped, hard-heeled women - same sense as number 1, I mean that they are with pursed lips or are they wearing some kind of reddish lipstick? The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. 22, 2000 A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and Wonder Boys (1994). Originally, the late Sydney Pollack was attached to. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon RELEASE DATE: Sept.

I have been racking my brain with the meaning of three expressions: The movie rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay were snapped ahead of its 2000 publication by producer Scott Rudin and Paramount.

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