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Lucky Alan: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Lucky Alan: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

The incomparableÂ Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his masteryÂ of the short form.

Jonathan Lethemâ€™s third collection of stories uncovers a fatherâ€™s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in â€œPending Veganâ€; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in â€œTraveler Homeâ€; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in â€œProcedure in Plain Airâ€; and a crumbling, haunted â€œblogâ€ on a seaside cliff in â€œThe Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear.â€ 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.
Â Â Â Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in â€œThe King of Sentencesâ€; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in â€œThe Porn Criticâ€; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in â€œTheir Back Pages.â€ 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Jonathan Lethem
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780385539821
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfPages	177
PublicationDate	2015-02-24
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Studio	Vintage

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