The Disappointment Artist

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A wonderful collection of essays and memories from one of America's most respected authors. The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Letham offers a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape and personal history that formed Letham's richly imaginative perspective on life at the end of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The Disappointment Artist

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Lethem
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2005
• EAN: 9780571227747
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22774-7
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies