Girl in Landscape

Author: Lethem, Jonathan

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 02-12-2004

Details: Product Description
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 - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and passive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.
Book Description
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
About the Author
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.

He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited
The Vintage Book of
Amnesia, guest-edited
The Year's Best
Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of
Fence magazine.

His writings have appeared in the
New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

EAN: 9780571225286

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English