The Feral Detective
Jonathan Lethem
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Description for The Feral Detective
Paperback.
'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist - a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer - to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble - caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. ... Read more
'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist - a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer - to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble - caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786497499
SKU
9781786497499
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.
Reviews for The Feral Detective
One of America's finest living writers - wry, truthful and utterly original ... Startling, funny - it is captivating.
Daily Mail (Scotland)
A highbrow mystery... Fans of Motherless Brooklyn take note
Washington Post
A bizarre, poignant, mind-bending journey... worth every page.
Crimereads
Surrealistic, genre-bending... hallucinatory. A haunting tour of the gulf between the privileged ... Read more
Daily Mail (Scotland)
A highbrow mystery... Fans of Motherless Brooklyn take note
Washington Post
A bizarre, poignant, mind-bending journey... worth every page.
Crimereads
Surrealistic, genre-bending... hallucinatory. A haunting tour of the gulf between the privileged ... Read more