Girl in Landscape
Jonathan Lethem
(Author)
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Description
Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. - "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before 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 a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.
Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.95
Publisher
Vintage
Publish Date
January 26, 1999
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.13 X 7.99 X 0.64 inches | 0.52 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780375703911
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About the Author
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of the novels Gun, with Occasional Music; Amnesia Moon; and As She Climbed Across the Table; as well as a collection of short stories, The Wall of the Sky the Wall of the Eye. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
"One of the most original voices among younger American novelists....Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday "Lethem is opening up blue sky for American fiction."--Village Voice "Complex, scary and finally moving."--Atlanta Journal & Constitution
