Men and cartoons : stories / Jonathan Lethem.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Lethem, Jonathan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary places--Fiction.

Imaginary places.

Short stories, American.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Short stories.

Fantasy fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Production:

New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2005.

Summary:

A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. "Men and Cartoons" contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a dizzying array of styles that shows the remarkable range and power of Lethem's vision. Sometimes firmly grounded in reality, and other times spinning off into utterly original imaginary worlds, this book brings together marvelous characters with incisive social commentary and thought provoking allegories. A visionary and creative collection that only Jonathan Lethem could have produced, the Vintage edition features two stories not published in the hardcover edition, "The Shape We're In" and "Interview with the Crab.

Contents:

The vision

Access fantasy

The spray

Vivian Relf

Planet Big Zero

The glasses

The dystopianist, thinking of his rival, is interrupted by a knock on the door

Super Goat Man

The national anthem

This shape we're in

Interview with the Crab.

Notes:

Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover by Doubleday, New York, 2004.

ISBN:

1400076803

9781400076802

OCLC:

70836549

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