Bøger af Jonathan Lethem

‘Dissidentparken’ er den amerikanske forfatter Jonathan Lethems beretning om modkulturen i USA gennem det sidste trekvarte århundrede. Den er bygget op som en familiesaga over tre generationer. Rose Angrush er polsk jøde og kommunist og emigrerer som ung til USA i 1930’erne. Rose bliver kaldt Sunnyside Gardens røde dronning og er en karismatisk furie, som terroriserer omgivelserne med sine kompromisløse holdninger og sit skarpe intellekt. Hendes lige så begavede og viljestærke datter Miriam flygter fra sin mors indflydelse og bliver en del af den gryende modkultur i Greenwich Village, hvor hun danner par med folkesangeren Tommy Gogan. Sammen får de sønnen Sergius, som de forlader, mens han er spæd, for at slutte sig til sandinisterne i Nicaragua. Sergius forsøger som voksen at nå til en forståelse af sin familiemæssige baggrund. Undervejs i sin søgen stifter han bekendtskab med occupy-bevægelsen og finder måske derved en tråd i sit liv, som forbinder ham med sin familie. "Så ambitiøs som Mailer, så morsom som Philip Roth og så skarp som Bob Dylan … ‘Dissident­parken’ viser Lethems fulde beherskelse af sit talent som romanforfatter, sådan som han ubesværet glider fra historiske perioder til indre verdener … vidende, velskrevet, vis, empatisk, hjertegribende og næsten blottet for nostalgi." Los Angeles Times

A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder, from the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest.Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems?there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from a beloved author is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.

Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned.

A father's nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a haunted 'blog' ... Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting - a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy work in harmony, and a modern master of American letters entertains and dazzles us once again, as only he can.

Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.

A virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions: Talking Heads.

Includes interviews between legendary "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood who has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer.

Announcing the third annual collection of the year's best essays and articles on music. It's "music-geek rapture."-Entertainment Weekly