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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. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | 978-1-4000-7682-6 (1-4000-7682-X) | April 2008 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | 978-1-4000-7681-9 (1-4000-7681-1) | March 2006 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | 978-1-4000-7680-2 (1-4000-7680-3) | November 2005 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | 978-0-375-72488-6 (0-375-72488-5) | August 2004 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-0-375-72483-1 (0-375-72483-4) | October 2000 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors) | 978-0-375-70661-5 (0-375-70661-5) | October 2000 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-0-375-70391-1 (0-375-70391-8) | January 1999 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-0-375-70012-5 (0-375-70012-9) | February 1998 | $ 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