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Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature -- .

Table of Contents

Series editor’s foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Genre collisions and mutations
1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music
2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon
3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table
4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape
5. ‘We learned to tell our story walking’: Tourette’s and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn
6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude
7. ‘Hiding in plain sight’: reality and secrecy in You Don’t Love Me Yet and Chronic City
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Jonathan Lethem

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719082672, 978-0719082672
      ISBN10: 719082676

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature -- .

      Table of Contents

      Series editor’s foreword
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Genre collisions and mutations
      1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music
      2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon
      3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table
      4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape
      5. ‘We learned to tell our story walking’: Tourette’s and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn
      6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude
      7. ‘Hiding in plain sight’: reality and secrecy in You Don’t Love Me Yet and Chronic City
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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