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Men and Cartoons
by Lethem, Jonathan
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "To _ all best wishes Jonathan Lethem." Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. Nine stories, including "Super Goat Man," first published in The New Yorker, and "The Dystopianist," which appeared in Pushcart Prize Stories XXVIII.
Synopsis
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 Lethem's novels in all these pieces--narrators who can't stop babbling, hapless would-be detectives, people with unusual powers that do them no good, hot-blooded academics, and characters whose clever repartee masks lovelorn desperation as they negotiate both the stumbling path of romance and the bittersweet obligations of friendship.Among them:"The Vision" is a story about drunken neighborhood parlor games, boys who dress up as superheroes, and the perils of snide curiosity."Access Fantasy" is part social satire, part weird detective story. Evoking Lethem's earliest work, it conjures up a world divided between people who have apartments and people trapped in an endless traffic jam behind The One-Way Permeable Barrier."The Spray" is a simple story about how people in love deal with their past. A magical spray is involved. "Vivian Relf" is a tour de force about loss. A man meets a woman at a party; they're sure they've met before, but they haven't. As the years progress this strangely haunting encounter comes to define the narrator's life."The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" is a Borgesian tale that features suicidal sheep. (This story won a Pushcart Prize when first published in Conjunctions.)"Super Goat Man" is a savagely funny expose of the failures of the sixties baby boomers, and of their children.Sparkling with the off-beat humor and subtle insights, Men and Cartoons is a welcome addition to the shelf of the writer "whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country's foremost novelists." --Salon
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crow Hop Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 554
- Title
- Men and Cartoons
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
Terms of Sale
Crow Hop Rare Books
Institutions billed per their requirements. Reciprocal 20% Dealer Discount. ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. Books returnable up to ten (10) days after purchase with prior notification. All credit cards accepted. Postage: $4.00 for first book, $2.00 for each thereafter for USPS media mail. Postage for larger books, international orders, and priority mail quoted individually.
About the Seller
Crow Hop Rare Books
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Kennesaw, Georgia
About Crow Hop Rare Books
Established in 2018, Crow Hop Rare Books sells a variety of unusual and hard to find material, including photo albums, vernacular material, signed/inscribed first editions, African Americana, ephemera, and midcentury Americana.
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