Jonathan Lethem







Jonathan Lethem

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born
February 19, 1964

gender
male

place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Paula Fox, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka


about this author

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem is also a prolific essayist and short story writer.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem




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Motherless Brooklyn Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.94 — 5,871 ratings — published 1999
20 editions
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The Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.86 — 3,036 ratings — published 2003
18 editions
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Gun, with Occasional Music Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.79 — 1,399 ratings — published 1994
12 editions
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As She Climbed Across the Tabl... As She Climbed Across the Table
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.64 — 1,004 ratings — published 1997
11 editions
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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 2.67 — 1,196 ratings — published 2007
10 editions
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Men and Cartoons Men and Cartoons
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.43 — 760 ratings — published 2004
6 editions
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Amnesia Moon Amnesia Moon
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.51 — 678 ratings — published 1995
7 editions
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Girl in Landscape: A Novel Girl in Landscape: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.60 — 622 ratings — published 1998
6 editions
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The Disappointment Artist: Ess... The Disappointment Artist: Essays
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.51 — 553 ratings — published 2005
6 editions
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The Wall of the Sky, the Wall... The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.68 — 358 ratings — published 1996
6 editions
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""I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.""
Jonathan Lethem (You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel)
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"Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked."
Jonathan Lethem
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"Every room I've lived in since I was given my own room at eleven was lined with, and usually overfull of, books. My employment in bookstores was always continuous with my private hours: shelving and alphabetizing, building shelves, and browsing-- in my collection and others-- in order to understand a small amount about the widest possible number of books. Such numbers of books are constantly acquired that constant culling is necessary; if I slouch in this discipline, the books erupt. I've also bricked myself in with music--vinyl records, then compact discs. My homes have been improbably information-dense, like capsules for survival of a nuclear war, or models of the interior of my own skull. That comparison--room as brain-- is one I've often reached for in describing the rooms of others, but it began with the suspicion that I'd externalized my own brain, for anyone who cared to look."
Jonathan Lethem (The Disappointment Artist)
6 editions
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