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1	Motherless Brooklyn more books like this by Jonathan Lethem Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach and stroke people. Local tough guy hires Lionel and other boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a detective-agency-cum-limo service. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Fortress of Solitude more books like this by Jonathan Lethem From the funked-up, messed up Brooklyn of the 1970s to the present day, this novel spans 30 years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books and experimental film. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Gun, with occasional music more books like this by Jonathan Lethem The first novel by Jonathan Lethem is a hard-boiled, noir mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation. Conrad Metcalf has problems. He has a monkey on his back, a rabbit in his waiting-room, and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. (Maybe evolution therapy is not ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s more books like this by 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." see all copies from £18.22! new only from £18.32! \| first editions
5	Amnesia Moon more books like this by Jonathan Lethem Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming, is a broken-down, mutant-ridden town. Young Chaos lives in the projection booth of the abandoned multiplex, trying to blot out his present unable to remember his past. Then the local tyrant, Kellogg, reveals to him to over a can of dog food that the bombs never fell. The truth is a little more ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £1.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	You Don't Love Me Yet more books like this by 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. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £1.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick more books like this by 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." see all copies from £9.24! new only from £15.91! \| first editions
8	Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s more books like this by Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor) This volume collects five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of science-fiction master Philip K. Dick. The works include "Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"; and "A Scanner Darkly." see all copies from £19.75! new only from £19.75! \| first editions
9	As She Climbed Across the Table more books like this by Jonathan Lethem Particle physicist Alice Coombs and her colleagues are on the cusp of a great discovery. They have created a void, a hole in the universe, a nothingness they have named "Lack". Philip Engstrand loves Alice Coombs. The trouble is that Lack is about to come between them. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye more books like this by Jonathan Lethem A text containing seven tales that blur the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery and thriller. In "Light and the Sufferer", a crack addict is dogged by an invulnerable alien; in "The Hardened Criminals", convicts are used as building blocks for new prisons. see all copies from £2.06! new only from £2.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Girl in Landscape more books like this by Jonathan Lethem 14-year-old Pella Marsh's mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Attracted to the virile, dangerous leader of the colony, Pella embarks upon a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences. see all copies from £5.43! new only from £6.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss more books like this by Jonathan Lethem (Editor) This anthology collects stories about memory loss. Work by Shirley Jackson, Donald Barthelme, Vladimir Nabokov, and many others is included. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" Songs They Love more books like this by Julianna Baggott, M.F.A., Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta Not since the dawn of the music video has pop music undergone a pioneering effort as exciting as this. In LIT RIFFS, America's latest generation of celebrated storytellers joins a list of the most world-renowned rock critics in composing a unique anthology. The anthology consists of fiction, non-fiction, and free-form riffs based on the writer's ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £5.60! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Man Who Lost the Sea: Volume X: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon more books like this by Theodore Sturgeon, Jonathan Lethem (Foreword by) Sturgeon's career was at a high point in these years thanks to the very favourable reaction to his 1953 novel More than Human and to the short fiction he published in 1953 and thereafter. But this long-awaited success was obstructed by serious episodes of writer's block in 1955 and again in 1958. Volume X shows Sturgeon doing some of his best and ... see all copies from £16.75! new only from £16.75!
15 view cover	Men and Cartoons more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £9.22! \| first editions
16 view cover	Kafka Americana more books like this by Jonathan Lethem, Carter Scholz Previously Published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In ... see all copies from £4.29! new only from £6.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Men and Cartoons: Stories more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Disappointment Artist: Essays more books like this by 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. see all copies from £2.06! new only from £10.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Omega: The Unknown more books like this by Jonathan Lethem, Karl Rusnack, Farel Dalrymple (Illustrator) This is the story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down! Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was ... see all copies from £15.79! new only from £15.79!
20 view cover	This Shape We're in more books like this by 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. see all copies from £8.37! new only from £18.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company more books like this by Daniel Fuchs, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by) see all copies from £9.28! new only from £11.49!
22 view cover	Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes more books like this by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem (Preface by) For the first time in book form - a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of "Fortune" on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title ... see all copies from £6.66! new only from £11.50! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Disappointment Artist: And Other Essays more books like this by 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. see all copies from £7.19! new only from £7.63!
24 view cover	How We Got Insipid more books like this by 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. see all copies from £21.01! new only from £21.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Travelers more books like this by Jonathan Lethem, Walter Martin (Photographer), Paloma Munoz (Photographer) Within the simple constraints of a snowglobe, Martin and Muoz create strangely captivating, but on second-glance darkly foreboding, mini-narratives and record them in color photographs. This volume contains an original short story by acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem.Aperture see all copies from £21.95! new only from £21.95!

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