Lucky Alan : and other stories

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Grouping Title	lucky alan
Grouping Author	jonathan lethem
Grouping Category	book
Grouping Language	English (eng)
Last Grouping Update	2024-04-21 03:13:54AM
Last Indexed	2024-04-26 03:13:06AM

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Lethem, Jonathan

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Lethem, Jonathan

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"Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in "Traveler Home"; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in "Procedure in Plain Air"; and a crumbling, haunted "blog" on a seaside cliff in "The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear." Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting. As in his celebrated novels, Lethem finds the uncanny lurking in the mundane, the irrational self-defeat seeping through our upstanding pursuits, and the tragic undertow of the absurd world(s) in which we live. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in "The King of Sentences"; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in "The Porn Critic"; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in "Their Back Pages." As always in Lethem, humor and poignancy work in harmony, humans strive desperately for connection, words find themselves misaligned to deeds, and the sentences are glorious" --

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Book

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Short Stories

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LETHEM

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Wake County Public Libraries

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Cary Regional
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9780385539814

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2015

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Doubleday

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Short stories

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Lucky Alan : and other stories

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Lucky Alan : and other stories / Jonathan Lethem

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Lucky Alan

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and other stories

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ils:696105	5496719	Remote Storage - Adult Fiction	LETHEM	1	false	false	On Shelf	LAB
ils:696105	5835868	Cary Regional - Adult Fiction	LETHEM	1	false	false	On Shelf	CRY
ils:696105	5835867	Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction	LETHEM	1	false	false	Checked out	OBR

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Bib Id	Format	Format Category	Edition	Language	Publisher	Publication Date	Physical Description	Abridged
ils:696105	Book	Books	First edition	English	Doubleday	[2015]	157 pages ; 22 cm

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