Jonathan Lethem
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
511 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dylan Edbus and Mingus Rude have developed a strong friendship, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is African-American, their friendship is not simple and they struggle to stay connected, despite their vastly different upbringings and societal roles.
Author
Language
English
Description
An unreconstructed Communist, an aristocratic German Jewish husband, a chess hustler, and other radicals populate the pages of this multigenerational tale featuring people so married to their beliefs that their neighbors may want to lock the doors when they see them coming down the street.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in "Traveler Home"; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in "Procedure in Plain Air"; and a crumbling, haunted "blog" on a seaside cliff in "The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear." Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chase Insteadman, a former child star who supports his active Manhattan social life with residual income from a sitcom on which he worked whose scientist-astronaut finacé is stuck in space, is befriended by a marijuana-smoking pop critic who enlists Chase's help in unearthing the answers to several questions he has about truth and reality.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more.
From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes...
From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes...
10) Wastelands
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed
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