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Girl in Landscape

A Novel

A Novel

By Jonathan Lethem

By Jonathan Lethem

By Jonathan Lethem

By Jonathan Lethem

By Jonathan Lethem
Read by David Aaron Baker

By Jonathan Lethem
Read by David Aaron Baker

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.00

Jan 26, 1999 | ISBN 9780375703911

Ebook $11.99

Apr 13, 2011 | ISBN 9780307791771

Audiobook Download $17.50

Sep 04, 2007 | 403 Minutes

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    About Girl in Landscape

    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. 

    About Girl in Landscape

    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. 



    About Girl in Landscape

    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. 

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    About Jonathan Lethem

    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

    About Jonathan Lethem

    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

    About Jonathan Lethem

    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

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 26, 1999 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375703911

    Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 13, 2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307791771

    Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Sep 04, 2007 | 403 Minutes | ISBN 9780739357248

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    "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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