The Resource Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem
Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem
Resource Information
The item Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wake County Public Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wake County Public Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
- Summary
- "Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in "Traveler Home"; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in "Procedure in Plain Air"; and a crumbling, haunted "blog" on a seaside cliff in "The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear." 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. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in "The King of Sentences"; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in "The Porn Critic"; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in "Their Back Pages." 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" --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 157 pages
- Contents
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- Lucky Alan
- The king of sentences
- Traveler home
- Procedure in plain air
- Their back pages
- The porn critic
- The empty room
- The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear
- Pending vegan
- Isbn
- 9780385539814
- Label
- Lucky Alan : and other stories
- Title
- Lucky Alan
- Title remainder
- and other stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Lethem
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in "Traveler Home"; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in "Procedure in Plain Air"; and a crumbling, haunted "blog" on a seaside cliff in "The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear." 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. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in "The King of Sentences"; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in "The Porn Critic"; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in "Their Back Pages." 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" --
- Assigning source
- provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- RV8
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS
- Literary form
- short stories
- Label
- Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Lucky Alan -- The king of sentences -- Traveler home -- Procedure in plain air -- Their back pages -- The porn critic -- The empty room -- The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear -- Pending vegan
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 157 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385539814
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- ocn891155835
- 696105
- Label
- Lucky Alan : and other stories, Jonathan Lethem
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Lucky Alan -- The king of sentences -- Traveler home -- Procedure in plain air -- Their back pages -- The porn critic -- The empty room -- The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear -- Pending vegan
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 157 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385539814
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn891155835
- 696105
Library Locations
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Cameron Village Regional LibraryBorrow it1930 Clark Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 27605, US35.789611 -78.6579744
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Cary Community LibraryBorrow it310 South Academy Street, Cary, NC, 27511, US35.784208 -78.78162309999999
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East Regional LibraryBorrow it946 Steeple Square Court, Knightdale, NC, 27545, US35.80288669999999 -78.4869501
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Northeast Regional LibraryBorrow it4401 Green Elm Lane, Raleigh, NC, 27614, US35.9535279 -78.544333
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Southeast Regional LibraryBorrow it908 7th Avenue, Garner, NC, 27529, US35.7060093 -78.62109339999999
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West Regional LibraryBorrow it4000 Louis Stephens Drive, Cary, NC, 27519, US35.8146787 -78.8646832
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