{"product_id":"jonathan-lethem-and-the-galaxy-of-writing-9781350235922","title":"Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Brooker\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eJoyce's Critics\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eFlann O'Brien\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003ci\u003eLiterature of the 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Brooker’s \u003ci\u003eJonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an important new addition to the growing bookshelf of excellent scholarship devoted to Lethem’s voluminous output. Wrestling Lethem’s work free of the problematic label, postmodernism, Brooker eschews the misleadingly tidy safety of chronological order, and instead deftly shuffles Lethem’s fiction under a sequence of key rubrics, to meticulously analyse the spectrum of his concerns, from the complexities of world making to the pathos of the superheroes’ confrontation with “the indignities of mundane reality.” Attuned to both Lethem’s place amongst his contemporaries (Egan, Franzen, Wallace), and his skilful borrowings from the past (from DeLillo and Dick to The Trashmen), this is a compelling and comprehensive analysis of a major writer. * Stephen J. Burn, Reader in American Literature after 1945, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Note  Introduction  Chapter One: Sources  Chapter Two: Genres  Chapter Three: Worlds  Chapter Four: Heroes  Chapter Five: Streets  Conclusion  Works Cited","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019643486551,"sku":"9781350235922","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jonathan-lethem-and-the-galaxy-of-writing-9781350235922","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}