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Jan 26, 1999 | ISBN 9780375703911 Buy
Apr 13, 2011 | ISBN 9780307791771 Buy
Sep 04, 2007 | 403 Minutes Buy
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Jan 26, 1999 | ISBN 9780375703911
Apr 13, 2011 | ISBN 9780307791771
Sep 04, 2007 | ISBN 9780739357248
403 Minutes
One the irrepressibly inventive Jonathan Lethem could weld science fiction and the Western into a mesmerizing novel of exploration and otherness, sexual awakening and loss. At the age of 13 Pella Marsh loses her mother and her home on the scorched husk that is planet Earth. Her sorrowing family emigrates to the Planet of the Archbuilders, whose mysterious inhabitants have names like Lonely Dumptruck and Hiding Kneel—and a civilization that and frightens their human visitors. On this new world, spikily independent Pella becomes as uneasy envoy between two species. And at the same time is unwilling drawn to a violent loner who embodies all the paranoid machismo of the frontier ethic. Combining the tragic grandeur of John Ford’s The Searchers and the sexual tension of Lolita and transporting them to a planet light years, Girl in Landscape is a tour de force.
Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship… More about Jonathan Lethem
"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
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