The Blot

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A "New York Times" top 100 Notable Book of the Year, this is a brilliantly surreal book set in a Pynchonesque California. Zusammenfassung Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned.

Report

A return to form, absurd and digressive in a way that makes clear Lethem's debt to Thomas Pynchon Alex Preston Observer, 2017 Books of the Year

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Lethem, Lethem Jonathan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2018
• EAN: 9781784701642
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-164-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Absurdist, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary