The Vision by Jonathan Lethem

Author:Jonathan Lethem [Lethem, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-101-91090-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

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JONATHAN LETHEM

AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE

Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, quite literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University, where both she and Philip work, has created a hole, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it Lack and Alice becomes obsessed with it, just as Philip is obsessed with her. As She Climbed Across the Table is an astute and wise portrait of unrequited love (albeit of a very unusual kind), a hilarious academic parody, a novel of ideas, and a social satire. Though utterly original, it finds itself in the school of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Katherine Dunn, and David Foster Wallace.

Fiction

CHRONIC CITY

Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories, Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan. Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price.

Fiction

THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST

In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these “voyages out from himself” has led him to the source of his beginnings as a writer. The Disappointment Artist is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem’s richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life. A touching, deeply perceptive portrait of a writer in the making.

Essays/Criticism

DISSIDENT GARDENS

Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Rose’s influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Rose’s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam’s (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethem’s vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.

Fiction

THE ESCTASY OF INFLUENCE

In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces—essays, memoir,

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