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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.
