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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: 214904
Studio: Ballantine Books
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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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This was a great read! I'm not a huge fan of Superman stories, and have always found the character (as portrayed in movies and recent comics) to be quite one-dimensional and boring. This book definitely added life to the character and helped me understand where he came from.
Written as if Smallville (the television show) had continued past Clark's high school years and taken place in the 1930s, this book establishes the relationships of Clark, Lois and Lex in the setting of a murder ... Read More
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First, to echo the majority of reviews - this is an amazing, "realistic"/gritty take on Superman's mythology.
I am a big comics fan from the 70s and love the older, 30s/Golden Age treatment of many heroes. This book, by giving Clark a real-world late-1930s America in which to roam, gives a fairly plausible (as plausible as a "superbaby from outer space" story can be) and well-thought out realistic grounding for Clark's evolution from scared, unsure teenager to morally just and responsible ... Read More
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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 Kents, ... 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 introduction ... 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 a young ... Read More
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