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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive former child-star, living a vague routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancee, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift. ...Show more
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
$38.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, living off his earnings as a child star. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: his teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn't the first time, and it wasn't the last. In fact, Rose - like all American Communists - got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesn't take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorising the neighb ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
$44.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn't the first time, and it wasn't the last. In fact, Rose - like all American Communists - got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesn't take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorizing the neighb ...Show more
Fortress of Solitude, The by Jonathan Lethem
$39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude spans thirty years in the lives of its characters, and in the life of a neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Within these pages too are the history of soul music, of graffiti art, of experimental film and 'rock writing', and o ...Show more
Girl in Landscape by Lethem, Jonathan
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Lethem is opening up blue sky for American fiction. . . . He is rapidly evolving into his own previously uncatalogued species." -The Village Voice Only the irrepressibly inventive Jonathan Lethem could weld science fiction and the Western into a mesmerizing novel of exploration and otherness, sexual a ...Show more
Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A father's nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted 'blog'...Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting - a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy ...Show more
Men and Cartoons : Stories by Jonathan Lethem
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn now beguiles his readers nine times over into the ironic, heartbroken, eerie and absurd territory he has made forever his own. The nine stories in this collection present characters struggling with loneliness, failed relationships and the co ...Show more
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
With impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal accounts of extraordinary literary encounters, Jonathan Lethem's More Alive and Less Lonely is an essential celebration of literature, from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. On ...Show more