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1	Motherless Brooklyn more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist A private detective named Lionel "Freakshow" Essrog, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, is the hero of Lethem's novel, set in a particularly colorful part of Brooklyn. Essrog must track down the murderer of his old friend, and boss, the big-time gangster Frank Minna. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Gun, with occasional music more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist The first novel by Jonathan Lethem is a hard-boiled, noir mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation. Conrad Metcalf has problems. He has a monkey on his back, a rabbit in his waiting-room, and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. (Maybe evolution therapy is not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Fortress of Solitude more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Dylan grows up in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, the only white boy around. His hippie parents are oblivious, but his troubles in an all-black milieu are eased by his best friend, Mingus Rude, the son of a soul singer. As the boys grow up, Dylan moves away from his roots and goes off to college in Berkeley, while Mingus falls deep into crack ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	You Don't Love Me Yet more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Brimming with satire and sex, this affectionate send-up of the alternative band scene, the city of Los Angeles, and the entire genre of romantic comedy remains unmistakably the work of the inimitable Lethem. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Amnesia Moon more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Jonathan Lethem plays with memory, time and character in this picaresque novel about a man called Chaos, stricken with amnesia in Hatfork, Wyoming, who discovers that his name is really Everett Moon and that he is from San Francisco. In this near-future, however, San Francisco has become a "city of erasures," perpetually foggy, where the names of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s more books like this by Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor) add to wishlist This volume collects five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of science-fiction master Philip K. Dick. The works include "Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"; and "A Scanner Darkly." see all copies from $21.00! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist This volume contains seven short stories by author Lethem, including three Nebula Award nominees and two nominees for the prestigious Tiptree Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick more books like this by Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by) add to wishlist At work in each of these stories is Dick's uncanny ability to imagine bizarre new worlds in which human emotions play out with profound and arresting familiarity. Includes "The Minority Report, Imposter, Roog, Beyond Lies the Wub, " and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, " the basis for the film "Total Recall." see all copies from $7.56! new only from $13.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	As She Climbed Across the Table more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Particle physicist Alice Coombs and her colleagues are on the cusp of a great discovery. They have created a void, a hole in the universe, a nothingness they have named "Lack". Philip Engstrand loves Alice Coombs. The trouble is that Lack is about to come between them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Girl in Landscape more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist 14-year-old Pella Marsh's mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Attracted to the virile, dangerous leader of the colony, Pella embarks upon a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss more books like this by Jonathan Lethem (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology collects stories about memory loss. Work by Shirley Jackson, Donald Barthelme, Vladimir Nabokov, and many others is included. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	This Shape We're in more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist In Jonathan Lethem's short novel, Henry Farbur, a retired general, enjoys a super-conventional life until his estranged son is seen begging on the streets. Farbur's search for his son, and for the truth about the mysterious "shape" in which he lives, comprise a journey through a bizarre underworld. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $10.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company more books like this by Daniel Fuchs, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.98! \| SVS
14 view cover	Chronic City more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1939-41 more books like this by Greg Sadowski (Editor), Jonathan Lethem (Foreword by) add to wishlist Containing 22 long-out-of-print stories, this collection shines the spotlight on bygone superheroes from the dawn of the comic-book format, including Wonder Man, Spacehawk, Blue Bolt, and Rex Dexter. It also contains artwork by such comics luminaries as Fletcher Hanks, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Basil Wolverton. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
16 view cover	Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s more books like this by Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor) add to wishlist This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: "The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik." see all copies from $18.66! new only from $21.87! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Kafka Americana more books like this by Jonathan Lethem, Carter Scholz add to wishlist This collection of takeoffs on Kafka's stories includes a story in which Kafka writes the screenplay to the decidedly un-Kafkaesque "It's A Wonderful Life" and another that turns THE TRIAL into a story about bad credit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" Songs They Love more books like this by Julianna Baggott, M.F.A., Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta add to wishlist Not since the dawn of the music video has pop music undergone a pioneering effort as exciting as this. In LIT RIFFS, America's latest generation of celebrated storytellers joins a list of the most world-renowned rock critics in composing a unique anthology. The anthology consists of fiction, non-fiction, and free-form riffs based on the writer's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Disappointment Artist: Essays more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Men and Cartoons more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem's novels in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Men and Cartoons: Stories more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist Before MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN and FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE brought Jonathan Lethem a wider audience, he was known primarily as a writer of literary science fiction. Both halves of his career are evident in this slim volume of short stories, which uses fantastic motifs to explore themes familiar to all Lethem fans: comic books, the powerful effect of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye: Stories more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist This volume contains seven short stories by author Lethem, including three Nebula Award nominees and two nominees for the prestigious Tiptree Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Disappointment Artist: And Other Essays more books like this by Jonathan Lethem add to wishlist From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| SVS
24 view cover	Travelers more books like this by Jonathan Lethem, Walter Martin (Photographer), Paloma Munoz (Photographer) add to wishlist Within the simple constraints of a snowglobe, Martin and Muoz create strangely captivating, but on second-glance darkly foreboding, mini-narratives and record them in color photographs. This volume contains an original short story by acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem.Aperture see all copies from $19.99! new only from $24.84! \| SVS
25 view cover	Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes more books like this by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem (Preface by) add to wishlist For the first time in book form - a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of "Fortune" on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.52! \| first editions \| SVS

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