{"title":"Jonathan Lethem","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cellophane-bricks-a-life-in-visual-culture-jonathan-lethem-hardcover","title":"Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture -- Jonathan Lethem, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels--\u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others\u003c\/i\u003e--play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father's studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, \"made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts\" before diverting, at nineteen, to prose fiction. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates--and mourns--this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem's writing, is the subject of this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCellophane Bricks\u003c\/i\u003e gathers a lifetime of Lethem's art-writing, along with stunning, full-color images from the author's own collection and elsewhere. Here we tour Lethem's fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends; his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. More than just a compilation, \u003ci\u003eCellophane Bricks\u003c\/i\u003e comprises a kind of stealth memoir of Jonathan Lethem's parallel life in visual culture--a ravishing assemblage that makes the perfect gift for story lovers of all kinds, and an essential, singular brick to add to your own collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Lethem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ZE Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798988670001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2024","brand":"Jonathan Lethem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45674531127524,"sku":"9798988670001","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9798988670001.jpg?v=1727557683"},{"product_id":"motherless-brooklyn-jonathan-lethem-paperback","title":"Motherless Brooklyn -- Jonathan Lethem, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel f\u003cb\u003erom America's most inventive novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving. \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is 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 St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Lethem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375724831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e35837 \/ Motherless Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2000 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/29\/2000 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2000 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 1838\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 1453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the best sellers\u003ci\u003e The Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice for one of the best books of 2003, and \u003ci\u003eMother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named novel of the year by \u003ci\u003eEsquire, McSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York TImes\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a variety of other periodicals and anthologies. 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