The Disappointment Artist: Essays - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan LethemSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2006-03-14Pages:160
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400076819ISBN-10:1400076811UPC:9781400076819Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Literary Figures, Popular CultureSize:7.96 x 5.36 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCVBQR8DVM
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession--from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" has led him to the source of his beginnings as a writer. The Disappointment Artist is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life. A touching, deeply perceptive portrait of a writer in the making.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400076819ISBN-10:1400076811UPC:9781400076819Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Literary Figures, Popular CultureSize:7.96 x 5.36 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCVBQR8DVM
Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, and the editor of The Vintage Book of Amnesia. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Harper's. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.
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