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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345493927
ISBN: 0345493923
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: August 29, 2006
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Sales Rank: 150193
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Product Description:
Coming of age in rural 1930s America with X-ray vision, the power to stop bullets, and the ability to fly isn’t exactly every boy’s story. So just how did Clark Kent, a shy farmer’s son, grow up to be the Man of Steel? Follow young Clark’s whirlwind journey from Kansas to New York City’s Daily Planet–by way Hollywood. This ace reporter is not the only person leading a double life in a teeming metropolis, just the only one able to leap tall buildings in a single bound–a skill that comes in handy when battling powerful criminal masterminds like scheming Lex Luthor and fascist robots. But can Clark’s Midwestern charm save the day and win the heart of stunning, seen-it-all newspaperwoman Lois Lane? Or is it a job for Superman? Look deep into the soul of a pop-culture legend brilliantly reimagined in this novel, which is as inventive and thrilling as it is touching and wise.
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Tom De Haven returns Superman to his roots with this interesting, but deeply flawed novel. Superman, a creation of Siegel and Shuster in the late 30's, was a comic phenomenon when he arrived in the late 30's. An amalgam of a variety of concepts this raw idea gradually transformed into an American icon. De Haven revisits the story and transforms it into a combination of pulp fiction and The Grapes of Wraith. Clark Kent, as portrayed by here, is a callow youth lacking the stolid support of the ... Read More
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As someone who has enjoyed the various incarnations of the Superman legend on TV and in the movies over the years (as well as dipping into the comic books now and then), I liked Tom's De Haven's fresh-by-being-retro take on the character in his novel, "It's Superman!" Superman, after all, was originally created in the 1930's and dozens of his initial comic book and newspaper strip adventures took place at that time, so why not do a contemporary novel set during the time of the Man of Steel's initial ... Read More
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For everyone who has ever read a comic book here's a story you must hear. Tom De Haven's brilliant imagining of the early years of the iconic man of steel begins with "Our version of the story opens on the last Saturday of May 1935 with the arrival of Sheriff Bill Dutcher at the police station in Smallville, Kansas."
For most that year, 1935, brings to mind the Depression and the attendant gloom, hopelessness that settled over our country. Times were especially tough in Kansas where ... Read More
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I am a huge Superman fan, and I loved everything about this novel. I also enjoy the 1930-40s as a historical setting, so it's like this book was tailored for me. I cannot recommend this novel enough. While it was admittedly very important to me that De Haven get the iconic core of the character "Superman" right, I also think this book could be enjoyable to someone unfamiliar with all the Superman lore. There's a lot of American history intermingled with the story of Clark Kent growing into Superman. This works ... Read More
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This is an alternate retelling of Superman's life. It is set in the first third of the last century. It's dirty and unpleasant at times. It also paints a believable picture of a less than perfect Clark Kent and his road to enlightenment. Much like the movie "Batman Begins" only far more down trodden and scruffy.
I was an avid Superman fan from the late 60's and every once in a while I try to get into all the modernizations that have been perpetrated on Supes but the newer versions either tend to drop ... Read More
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