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Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem
$36.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: near fine
1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift ...Show more
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
$39.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happen ...Show more
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. Then there are investigations of a shelf's worth of Jonathan Letham's literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, ...Show more
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter ...Show more
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn.
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