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Motherless Brooklyn
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A private detective named Lionel "Freakshow" Essrog, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, is the hero of Lethem's novel, set in a particularly colorful part of Brooklyn. Essrog must track down the murderer of his old friend, and boss, the big-time gangster Frank Minna. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book.
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The Fortress of Solitude
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Jonathan Lethem
Dylan grows up in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, the only white boy around. His hippie parents are oblivious, but his troubles in an all-black milieu are eased by his best friend, Mingus Rude, the son of a soul singer. As the boys grow up, Dylan moves away from his roots and goes off to college in Berkeley, while Mingus falls deep into crack ...
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Gun, with occasional music
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Jonathan Lethem
Set in the near future, Jonathan Lethem's novel involves a private detective named Conrad Metcalf, the wealthy woman he is hired to follow (but not hired to fall for), her murdered husband, a gang of thugs, and a rabbit.
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Amnesia Moon
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Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem plays with memory, time and character in this picaresque novel about a man called Chaos, stricken with amnesia in Hatfork, Wyoming, who discovers that his name is really Everett Moon and that he is from San Francisco. In this near-future, however, San Francisco has become a "city of erasures," perpetually foggy, where the names of ...
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You Don't Love Me Yet
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Jonathan Lethem
Brimming with satire and sex, this affectionate send-up of the alternative band scene, the city of Los Angeles, and the entire genre of romantic comedy remains unmistakably the work of the inimitable Lethem.
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As She Climbed Across the Table
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Jonathan Lethem
A professor falls in love with a physicist named Alice, who falls in love with her own creation: a void in the universe called Lack.
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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s
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Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor)
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: "The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik."
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The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
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Jonathan Lethem
This volume contains seven short stories by author Lethem, including three Nebula Award nominees and two nominees for the prestigious Tiptree Award.
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Girl in Landscape
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Jonathan Lethem
In this unusual coming-of-age novel, a teenager mourning the death of her mother is forced to flee Brooklyn with her family after an apocalyptic event. They end up on an obscure planet where she becomes involved with the planet's charismatic leader.
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by)
At work in each of these stories is Dick's uncanny ability to imagine bizarre new worlds in which human emotions play out with profound and arresting familiarity. Includes "The Minority Report, Imposter, Roog, Beyond Lies the Wub, " and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, " the basis for the film "Total Recall."
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss
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Jonathan Lethem (Editor)
This anthology collects stories about memory loss. Work by Shirley Jackson, Donald Barthelme, Vladimir Nabokov, and many others is included.
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Men and Cartoons: Stories
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Jonathan Lethem
Before MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN and FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE brought Jonathan Lethem a wider audience, he was known primarily as a writer of literary science fiction. Both halves of his career are evident in this slim volume of short stories, which uses fantastic motifs to explore themes familiar to all Lethem fans: comic books, the powerful effect of the ...
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The Disappointment Artist: Essays
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Jonathan Lethem
From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him.
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The Man Who Lost the Sea: Volume X: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon, Jonathan Lethem (Foreword by)
By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement awards, this latest volume--written between 1957 and 1960--finds Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer.
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Men and Cartoons
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Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem's novels in ...
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The Disappointment Artist: And Other Essays
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Jonathan Lethem
From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him.
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Kafka Americana
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Jonathan Lethem, Carter Scholz
This collection of takeoffs on Kafka's stories includes a story in which Kafka writes the screenplay to the decidedly un-Kafkaesque "It's A Wonderful Life" and another that turns THE TRIAL into a story about bad credit.
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Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" Songs They Love
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Julianna Baggott, M.F.A., Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young ...
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This Shape We're in
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Jonathan Lethem
In Jonathan Lethem's short novel, Henry Farbur, a retired general, enjoys a super-conventional life until his estranged son is seen begging on the streets. Farbur's search for his son, and for the truth about the mysterious "shape" in which he lives, comprise a journey through a bizarre underworld.
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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
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James Agee, Jonathan Lethem (Preface by)
Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay--originally written in 1939 but published in 1968--is a New York classic.
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The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company
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Daniel Fuchs, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by)
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How We Got Insipid
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Jonathan Lethem, Blake Lethem (Illustrator)
A short story collection by the author of THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. Limited to only 1500 copies.
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The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye: Stories
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Jonathan Lethem
This volume contains seven short stories by author Lethem, including three Nebula Award nominees and two nominees for the prestigious Tiptree Award.
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Kafka Americana
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Carter Scholz, Jonathan Lethem
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Fortaleza De La Soledad/the Fortress of Solitude
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Jonathan Lethem
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