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Gun, with Occasional Music

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317882

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Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction 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 such a good idea). He's been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an Oakland urologist. Maybe falling in love with her a little at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, Metcalf finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of the Fickle Muse.

Gun, with Occasional Music

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547540146

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Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder, from the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel 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's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse. Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from a beloved author is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.

Gun, With Occasional Music

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312858787

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Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.

As She Climbed Across the Table

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317868

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As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

What if your lover left you for nothing? Literally Nothing? From the author of Motherless Brooklyn, this is a strange, hilarious love story about a man, a woman, and the space between them. Physicist Alice Coombs has made a great discovery - a hole in the universe, a true nothingness she and her colleagues call 'Lack'. Professor Philip Engstrand has made his own breakthrough - he realises how much he loves Alice. Trouble is, Lack is a void with a personality - a void that utterly obsesses Philip's beloved. She's fallen out of love with Philip and in love with Lack.

Amnesia Moon

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317851

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Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Jonathan Lethem, acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, here takes the reader on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic USA.Since the war came and the bombs fell, Hatfork, Wyoming, has been a broken-down, mutant-ridden town. Young Chaos lives in the projection booth of the abandoned multiplex cinema, trying to blot out his present, but unable to remember his past. Then, over a can of dog food, the local tyrant Kellogg reveals to Chaos that those bombs never actually fell. The truth, in fact, is a little more complicated . . .So Chaos gets behind the wheel of an automobile and, accompanied by a fur-covered mutant female, sets out onto the empty highway for a journey to the edge of his American nightmare: in search of a missing identity and a stolen love.

Motherless Brooklyn

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317899

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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019 'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday Times Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives 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 mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.

The Fortress of Solitude

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317912

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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.

Girl in Landscape

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317875

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Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita. Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and passive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.

Even Though I Knew the End

Author : C. L. Polk
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250849465

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Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk Pdf

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End. “Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it.”—Laini Taylor A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist—the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chronic City

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571258529

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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

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 fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, and trapped in a vague routine punctuated only by Upper Eastside dinner parties and engagements. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus' countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Together Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the Truth - that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought. Beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, Lethem's new novel is as always, utterly unique.

You Don't Love Me Yet

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307389435

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You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it's like to be young in Los Angeles. Lucinda Hoekke's daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Line—an art gallery's high-minded installation piece—is about as exciting as listening to dead air. Her real passion is playing bass in her forever struggling, forever unnamed band. But recently a frequent caller, the Complainer, as Lucinda dubs him, has captivated her with his philosophical musings. When Lucinda's band begins to incorporate the Complainer's catchy, existential phrases into their song lyrics, they are suddenly on the cusp of their big break. There is only one problem: the Complainer wants in. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens.

Crooked Little Vein

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061740978

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Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis Pdf

Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom's homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity—and this case is driving him even deeper into America's darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.

Talking Heads' Fear of Music

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441132925

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Talking Heads' Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" - and everything spins outward from that one moment. Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in which we fall in and out of love with works of art.

Dissident Gardens

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385534949

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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: 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 precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose’s influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose’s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam’s (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem’s characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As the decades pass—from the parlor communism of the ’30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged ’70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment—we come to understand through Lethem’s extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Lethem’s characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H, but his novel is—at its mesmerizing, beating heart—about love.

The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544346215

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The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever, Said the Duck," stored computer personalities scheme to break free of their owners. In these and other stories in this striking collection, Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, draws the reader ever more deeply into his strange, unforgettable world—a trip from which there may be no easy return.