Jonathan Lethem / James Peacock.

"Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the author's prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultura...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Contemporary American and Canadian writers
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Physical Description:ix, 185 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music
  • The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon
  • Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table
  • Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape
  • 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn
  • Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude
  • 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City.