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Girl in Landscape
Jonathan Lethem
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Description for Girl in Landscape
Paperback. Girl in Landscape Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 194 x 20. Weight in Grams: 211.
Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita.
Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571225286
SKU
V9780571225286
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-24
About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. ... Read more
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