Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: brooklyn, motherless
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2000-10-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375724834
ISBN-13: 9780375724831

From America’s most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks h

Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, landscape, girl
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-01-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0375703918
ISBN-13: 9780375703911

Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek’s "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita. At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors. As the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between t

Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: book, harvest, music, occasional, gun
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156028972
ISBN-13: 9780156028974

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there’s a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he’s falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor&#

Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, table, across, climbed
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-02-24
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0375700129
ISBN-13: 9780375700125

Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: solitude, fortress
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375724885
ISBN-13: 9780375724886

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude is the first great urban coming of

Authors:Paula Fox, Jonathan Lethem,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, george, poor
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2001-02
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0393321312
ISBN-13: 9780393321319

Paula Fox’s stunning first novel--available for the first time since its initial publication in 1967. Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George instead decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes. Filled with vividly acid portrayals of American life in the 1960s, prescient explorations of suburban anomie, and a riotously

Authors:Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Lester Bangs, Aimee Be
Publisher: MTV
Keywords: riffs, lit
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-06-15
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0743470265
ISBN-13: 9780743470261

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 man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, electrifying stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff. Alongside Bangs’s classic work, you’ll find stories by J.T. LeRoy, who puts a recovering te