Gun, With Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151364583
- ISBN 13
- 9780151364589
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Beige and green boards with gold writing on spine; top and bottom of book spine slightly rumpled. Dust jacket designed to look worn and creased to mimic older science fiction books; only issue with dust jacket is slight shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine. Tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition; cover price of $19.95 on front dust jacket flap.
Harcourt Brace First Edition; First Printing as indicated by "First Edition" and letter line of "A B C D E" on copyright page.
Lethem's first novel described as a "science fiction mystery. It's funny. It's not so funny." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
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 the author of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LTHM002
- Title
- Gun, With Occasional Music
- Author
- Jonathan Lethem
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151364583
- ISBN 13
- 9780151364589
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 262
- Keywords
- jonathan lethem; gun with occasional music
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery; Science Fiction;
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