A dazzling novel from one of America's finest writers - the
story of three generations of a radical New York family
Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize
Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times-bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in the New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire and the New York Times, among others.
The cast makes for a heady, swirly mix of fascinating, lonely
people. Lethem’s writing, as always, packs a witty punch. The epoch
each character inhabits is artfully etched and the book is as
illuminating of 20th-century American history as it is of the human
burden of overcoming alienation.
*Publisher's Weekly*
Lethem is breathtaking in this torrent of potent voices, searing
ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities. He
shreds the folk scene, eviscerates quiz shows...and offers unusual
perspectives on societal debacles and tragic injustices. A
righteous, stupendously involving novel about the personal toll of
failed political movements and the perplexing obstacles to doing
good.
*Booklist (starred review)*
Lethem has written a brilliant, funny, compendious novel at whose
heart lies a sharp, slim blade of thought and style.
*Guardian*
Superb… Dissident Gardens can be placed squarely in the canon of
the great American social novel.
*Financial Times*
This epic family novel criss-crosses generations from the Fifties
to the present day.
*Tatler*
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