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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel , The Feral Detective , and Motherless Brooklyn , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan , and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , Harper’s Magazine , and the Paris Review , among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories . The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Los Angeles and Maine. Klappentext A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever, Said the Duck," stored computer personalities scheme to break free of their owners. In these and other stories in this striking collection, Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, draws the reader ever more deeply into his strange, unforgettable world-a trip from which there may be no easy return. Zusammenfassung A striking short story collection from "one of the most unique and imaginative writers of his generation" ( USA Today) Welcome to the many and fascinating worlds of Jonathan Lethem's striking story collection: A dead man extends his stay on Earth in order to support his family, only to suffer periodic out-of-body sojourns in Hell; basketball players wear suits that lend them the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain; a couple invites the avatars of all their old lovers to their engagement party as a last hurrah; and every time a man takes a lover, her world begins to unwind, until she loses her place in it completely. In these and other stories in this collection, Jonathan Lethem, author of The Arrest and The Fortress of Solitude , draws the reader ever more deeply into his strange, unforgettable world—a trip from which there may be no easy return. ...
