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A father’s nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted 'blog' … Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting – a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy work in harmony, and a modern master of American letters entertains and dazzles us once again, as only he can.

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Sharp, sad, sophisticated, funny and sometimes exceedingly strange -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Lucky Alan is worth reading for those stories that convey so adroitly people’s beleaguered attempts to communicate with one another. -- Hannah Beckerman * Guardian *
Intriguing. -- Aamer Hussein * Independent *
The confidence of Lethem’s narration and the clarity of his language save any of this from whimsy: that’s a tough trick to pull off, but Lethem does it over and over again. No wonder he won a MacArthur fellowship (the famous “genius grant”) a decade ago. -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times *
A powerful glimpse into where Lethem is as a writer right now. * Bookmunch (Blog) *

Lucky Alan

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    A Paperback / softback by Jonathan Lethem

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 7 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9781784701635
      978-1784701635
      ISBN-10 1784701637
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A father’s nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted 'blog' … Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting – a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy work in harmony, and a modern master of American letters entertains and dazzles us once again, as only he can.

      Trade Review
      Sharp, sad, sophisticated, funny and sometimes exceedingly strange -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
      Lucky Alan is worth reading for those stories that convey so adroitly people’s beleaguered attempts to communicate with one another. -- Hannah Beckerman * Guardian *
      Intriguing. -- Aamer Hussein * Independent *
      The confidence of Lethem’s narration and the clarity of his language save any of this from whimsy: that’s a tough trick to pull off, but Lethem does it over and over again. No wonder he won a MacArthur fellowship (the famous “genius grant”) a decade ago. -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times *
      A powerful glimpse into where Lethem is as a writer right now. * Bookmunch (Blog) *

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