Dissident gardens : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0385534930 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780385534932 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0385534930 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780385534932 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780385534932 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0385534930 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
366 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2013]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose's suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her nephew, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. These flawed, idealistic people all struggle to follow their own utopian dreams in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As the decades pass--from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment--we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Brilliantly constructed as it weaves across time and among characters, Dissident Gardens is riotous and haunting, satiric and sympathetic--and a joy to read"-- |
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Subject: | Families Fiction Radicals Fiction City and town life Fiction Political science Fiction Family life Fiction |
Genre: | Satire. Urban fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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Ansonia Public Library | FIC LETHEM, JONATHAN (Text) | 34045122855518 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F LETHEM (Text) | 34030128989628 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/LETHEM (Text) | 34029129618491 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC LET (Text) | 36937002129998 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC LETHEM (Text) | 34014129060134 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | LET (Text) | 33210000319307 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Let (Text) | 33180123709835 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC LET (Text) | 34047128389617 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | FIC LETHEM, JONATHAN (Text) | 37777123529802 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC LET (Text) | 34055128239229 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |