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In honor of the 25th anniversary of Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author''s life and times.
About the author
JONATHAN LETHEM is the bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
About the Introducer: CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (winner of the 2020 National Book Award), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time Best Book of the Year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld.