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Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, MEN AND CARTOONS and THE WALL OF THE SKY, WALL OF THE EYE, and a collection of autobiographical essays, THE DISSAPOINTMENT ARTIST. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, McSweeny's, Tin House, The New York Times and others. He was recently granted a MacArthur Genius Award. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.
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Chronic City
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Motherless Brooklyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2000
Price: $14.95
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2000
Price: $14.95
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the... Read more >
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The Fortress of Solitude
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $14.95
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $14.95
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Men and Cartoons
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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You Don't Love Me Yet
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it's like to be young in Los Angeles.
Lucinda Hoekke's daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Line—an art gallery's high-minded installation piece—is about as exciting as listening to dead air. Her real passion is playing... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it's like to be young in Los Angeles.
Lucinda Hoekke's daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Line—an art gallery's high-minded installation piece—is about as exciting as listening to dead air. Her real passion is playing... Read more >
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The Disappointment Artist
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Dombey and Son
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $9.95
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $9.95
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius... Read more >
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Girl in Landscape
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $13.00
Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita.
At the age of 13... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $13.00
Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita.
At the age of 13... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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It Happened in Boston?
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $12.95
First published by Random House in 1968, Russell H. Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is the story of a brilliantly talented, unbalanced artist who strives to meet God face-to-face in order to destroy Him. It is “a magic spell of a book—phantasmagoric, lushly written, full of unforgettable characters and brilliant twists... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $12.95
First published by Random House in 1968, Russell H. Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is the story of a brilliantly talented, unbalanced artist who strives to meet God face-to-face in order to destroy Him. It is “a magic spell of a book—phantasmagoric, lushly written, full of unforgettable characters and brilliant twists... Read more >
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As She Climbed Across the Table
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $13.00
Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $13.00
Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $14.00
Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $14.00
Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to... Read more >
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You Don't Love Me Yet
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $29.95
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $29.95
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
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Men and Cartoons
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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You Don't Love Me Yet
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Disappointment Artist
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he... Read more >
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Dombey and Son
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius... Read more >
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Chronic City
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $22.50
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $22.50
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
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Chronic City
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Fortress of Solitude
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $19.95
This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $19.95
This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that... Read more >
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Men and Cartoons
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $8.48
Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles. Lethem is a trailblazer fo a new kind of literary fiction, sampling high and low culture to create... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $8.48
Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles. Lethem is a trailblazer fo a new kind of literary fiction, sampling high and low culture to create... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Disappointment Artist
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 15, 2005
Price: $8.48
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 15, 2005
Price: $8.48
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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You Don't Love Me Yet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.98
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.98
From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists... Read more >
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Girl in Landscape
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $17.50
Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita.
At the age of 13... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $17.50
Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita.
At the age of 13... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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