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Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ ˈ l iː θ əm /; [1] born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel , Gun, with Occasional Music , a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction , was published in 1994.
The Arrest is the 12th novel by Jonathan Lethem, published in November 2020. It is a post-apocalyptic science fiction story set in a small Maine town following the global collapse of technology. The pastoral life of the town is challenged when a nuclear-powered vehicle arrives, carrying the novel's antagonist.
Gun, with Occasional Music is a 1994 novel by American writer Jonathan Lethem that blends science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction.The novel won Lethem the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1995.
Jonathan Lethem in 2007. Stylistically, the two main parts of the novel are written as a) a third-person narrative ("Underberg" - part one) and b) a first-person narrative ("Prisonaires" - part three) with distinctive dialogue, though toward the very end of the book dialogue-intensive scenes and the brief entry of "Liner Notes" (part two) by Dylan are introduced to mirror his alienation from ...
Amnesia Moon is a 1995 novel by Jonathan Lethem.Lethem adapted the novel from several unpublished short stories he had written, all about catastrophic, apocalyptic events. . When Tor Books published the second edition in 1996, they commissioned Michael Koelsch to illustrate a new cover art; Koelsch had previously illustrated Lethem's previous book cover art Gun, with Occasional Mu
Lethem began work on Chronic City in early 2007, [2] and has said that the novel is "set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it’s strongly influenced by Saul Bellow, Philip K. Dick, Charles Finney and Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and it concerns a circle of friends including a faded child-star actor, a cultural critic, a hack ghost-writer of autobiographies, and a city official."
Novelist Jonathan Lethem and artist Farel Dalrymple revived Omega the Unknown in a 10-issue limited series published in 2007. [22] Lethem was a childhood fan of the first Omega series, and referenced the character in his 2003 novel The Fortress of Solitude. [23] When asked about Omega's appeal, Lethem stated,
Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. Told in first person, the story follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator who has Tourette's, a disorder marked by involuntary tics.