Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries)

A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail

Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called â€œas ambitious as [Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylanâ€ (Los Angeles Times), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga.
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Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Roseâ€™s influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Roseâ€™s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriamâ€™s (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethemâ€™s vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.

Country	USA
Author	Jonathan Lethem
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780307744494
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0307744493
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2014-06-03
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2014-06-03
Studio	Vintage

Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries)

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