MEN AND CARTOONS: STORIES
de Lethem, Jonathan
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- As New/As New Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385512163
- ISBN 13
- 9780385512169
- Librería
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CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
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New York City, NY: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Doubleday, 2004. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 176 pages. The author's third collection of short stories. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the paperback edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Lethem's "Men And Cartoons: Stories". His tribute to a beloved sub-genre, the comic book. "Blends the literary with the fantastical, probing themes of loneliness, failed relationships, and the consequences of strange powers. These nine stories starring comic-book heroes and regular folks are steeped in melancholic nostalgia, absurdist humor, and a sly air of cultural critique. The strongest combine character studies with extraordinary elements" (Publishers Weekly) . "His bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country's foremost writers" (Salon) . An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Lethem collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Jonathan Lethem. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His signature virtually fills up the page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Crawford Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1994 for "Gun, With Occasional Music". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for "Motherless Brooklyn". Selected as one of the "Best Books of The Year" by the New York Times in 2003 for "Fortress of Solitude". Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN LETHEM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385512163.
Sinopsis
Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem's novels in all these pieces--narrators who can't stop babbling, hapless would-be detectives, people with unusual powers that do them no good, hot-blooded academics, and characters whose clever repartee masks lovelorn desperation as they negotiate both the stumbling path of romance and the bittersweet obligations of friendship.Among them:"The Vision" is a story about drunken neighborhood parlor games, boys who dress up as superheroes, and the perils of snide curiosity."Access Fantasy" is part social satire, part weird detective story. Evoking Lethem's earliest work, it conjures up a world divided between people who have apartments and people trapped in an endless traffic jam behind The One-Way Permeable Barrier."The Spray" is a simple story about how people in love deal with their past. A magical spray is involved. "Vivian Relf" is a tour de force about loss. A man meets a woman at a party; they're sure they've met before, but they haven't. As the years progress this strangely haunting encounter comes to define the narrator's life."The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" is a Borgesian tale that features suicidal sheep. (This story won a Pushcart Prize when first published in Conjunctions.)"Super Goat Man" is a savagely funny expose of the failures of the sixties baby boomers, and of their children.Sparkling with the off-beat humor and subtle insights, Men and Cartoons is a welcome addition to the shelf of the writer "whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country's foremost novelists." --Salon
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- Librería
- Modern Rare
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10074
- Título
- MEN AND CARTOONS: STORIES
- Autor
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New Dust Jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0385512163
- ISBN 13
- 9780385512169
- Editorial
- Doubleday
- Lugar de publicación
- New York City, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Páginas
- 176
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