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Lucinda verbringt täglich acht Stunden damit, bei einer Nörgel-Hotline anonymen Anrufern zuzuhören. Ein Dauerkunde, der nur mit ihr sprechen will, zieht sie mit seinen Grübeleien und Selbstreflexionen in den Bann. Lucinda und der Nörgler arrangieren ein Treffen und verlieben sich heftig. Nebenbei spielt sie Bass in einer Band, deren Leadsänger Matthew, ein verwirrter junger Mann, vor kurzem ein depressives Känguru gekidnappt hat, um es von sei...

A father tries to stave off a nervous breakdown when a family trip to SeaWorld shades into the sinister, a porn critic discovers that, despite his best intentions, his reputation-not to mention the stacks of smut lining his apartment-precedes him, an out-of-work avant-garde stage director begins to test his limits in the theater of life, desperate forgotten comic book characters find themselves suddenly stranded on a desert island.With his cel...

Der große Generationenroman von US-Starautor Jonathan Lethem Lethem eröffnet dem Leser in seinem autobiographisch inspirierten Roman sein persönliches New York. Drei Generationen verschreiben sich ganz der linken Gegenkultur und fallen über ihrer Utopie der Vereinzelung anheim. Eine New York-Familiensaga im europäisch-jüdischen Milieu der Vereinigten Staaten - über Idealismus und Kompromisslosigkeit.

Jonathan Lethem again displays his brilliance in this collection of seven short stories, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller. Tales include 'Light and the Sufferer', in which a crack addict is dogged by an invulnerable alien, Each tale features Lethem's characteristic deadpan wit and unflinchingly macabre vision of life.

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 wit...

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 w...

The author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk,...

From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp critical essays, and personal accounts of his most extraor...

A brilliant study of early period Talking Heads by Jonathan Lethem, one of America's best novelists.

The hero of this novel is one Lionel Essrog, otherwise known as the Human Freakshow. Essrog is a victim of Tourette's Syndrome, hapless and veering out of control, he fights himself and his disease.

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Lethem, tangling with what he calls the "white elephant" role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he's written, 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. 464 pp.

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year -Austin American-Statesman Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet" In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces-essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism-which also doubles as a novelist's manifesto, self-portrait, and confession. The r...

Chase Insteadman è l'ex bambino prodigio di un vecchio telefilm. Tira avanti sfruttando ciò che resta della fama passata e il rinato interesse dei media per la sua relazione con Janice Trumbull, un'astronauta bloccata nello spazio, dalla quale riceve e-mail d'amore. A Chase si affianca Perkus Tooth, un ex critico musicale disoccupato con la passione per i cheeseburger, le cospirazioni e l'arte. Perkus aiuterà l'amico durante un percorso di for...

Riuscite a immaginare un padre di famiglia che torna periodicamente dall'aldilà e aiuta suo figlio a progettare un videogame ispirato alle sue avventure ultraterrene? Un inferno popolato di bellissime streghe a cavallo e cani robot? Un felino alieno che segue, come un agelo custode, due spacciatori di crack dilettanti? Un penitenziario le cui mura sono fatte di criminali incalliti? Sette racconti che mescolano il noir, la fantascienza e la pur...

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Nove racconti di eroi dei fumetti che incontrano gente comune, detective improvvisati e universi in cui l'umanità è confinata a vivere nelle auto. Nove storie narrate con una vena poetica, un humor surreale e una irrefrenabile tendenza alla critica sociale senza pedanteria. Una varietà di situazioni e stili che spaziano dal fumetto e i B movie alle opere più ispirate di Borges e Kafka, tutte accomunate dall'intensità e dall'estro creativo di L...

Uno dei romanzi più noti di Lethem, narra la storia di Dylan e Mingus, due ragazzi, vicini di casa che abitano a Brooklyn. Dylan è bianco, Mingus è nero: la loro amicizia non è sempre Facile. Un racconto che si snoda dagli anni settanta ai novanta, all'interno della "Fortezza", un isolato abitato da una maggioranza di famiglie nere, dove serpeggia la paura del ritorno dei bianchi. La vita nell'America degli anni settanta è fatta di conflitti r...

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