Girl in Landscape

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Lethem, Lethem Jonathan
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2004
• EAN: 9780571225286
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22528-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary