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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith Frank Lethem, a political activist, and Richard Brown Lethem, an avant-garde painter. He was the eldest of three children. His father was Protestant (with Scottish and English ancestry) and his mother was Jewish (from a family that originated in Germany, Poland, and Russia). His brother Blake became an artist, and his sister Mara became a photographer and writer. The family lived in a commune in the pre-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood of North Gowanus (now called Boerum Hill). Despite the racial tensions and conflicts, he later described his bohemian childhood as “thrilling” and culturally wide-reaching. He gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the music of Bob Dylan, saw Star Wars twenty-one times during its original theatrical release, and read the complete works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Lethem later said Dick’s work was “as formative an influence as marijuana or punk rock—as equally responsible for beautifully ****ing up my life, for bending it irreversibly along a course I still travel.”
His parents divorced when Lethem was young. When he was thirteen, his mother Judith died from a malignant brain tumor, an event which he has said haunted him and has strongly affected his writing. (Lethem discusses the direct relation between his mother and the Bob Dylan song Like a Rolling Stone in the 2003 Canadian documentary Complete Unknown.) In 2007, Lethem explained, "My books all have this giant, howling missing —language has disappeared, or someone has vanished, or memory has gone."
Intending to become a visual artist like his father, Lethem attended the High School of Music & Art in New York, where he painted in a style he describes as "glib, show-offy, usually cartoonish." At Music & Art he produced his own zine, The Literary Exchange, which featured artwork and writing. He also created animated films and wrote a 125-page novel, Heroes, still unpublished.
Lethem’s first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, is a merging of science fiction and the Chandleresque detective story, which includes talking kangaroos, radical futuristic versions of the drug scene, and cryogenic prisons. The novel was published in 1994 by Harcourt Brace, in what Lethem later described as a "delirious" experience. "I'd pictured my first novels being published as paperback originals,” he recalled, "and instead a prestigious house was doing the book in cloth....I was in heaven." The novel was released to little initial fanfare, but an enthusiastic review in Newsweek, which declared Gun an "audaciously assured first novel," catapulted the book to wider commercial success. Gun, with Occasional Music was a finalist for the 1994 Nebula Award, and placed first in the "Best First Novel" category of the 1995 Locus Magazine reader's poll. In the mid-1990s, film producer-director Alan J. Pakula optioned the novel's movie rights, which allowed Lethem to quit working in bookstores and devote his time to writing.
He followed Gun, with Occasional Music in 1995 with Amnesia Moon. Partially inspired by Lethem's experiences hitchhiking cross-country, this second novel uses a road narrative to explore a multi-post-apocalyptic future landscape rife with perception tricks. After publishing many of his early stories in a 1996 collection (The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye), Lethem's third novel, As She Climbed Across the Table, was published in 1997. The novel takes as its starting point a physics researcher who falls in love with an artificially generated spatial anomaly called "Lack", for whom she spurns her previous partner. Her ex-partner's comic struggle with this rejection, and with the anomaly constitute the majority of the narrative.
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Books
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn (read by Frank Muller)
Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress Of Solitude (read by David Aaron Baker)
Jonathan Lethem - Gun, With Occasional Music (read by Nick Sullivan)
Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City (read by Mark Deakins)
Jonathan Lethem - As She Climbed Across The Table (read by David Aaron Baker)
Jonathan Lethem - You Don't Love Me Yet (read by Jonathan Lethem)
Jonathan Lethem - Amnesia Moon (read by Scott Sowers)
Jonathan Lethem - Dissident Gardens (read by Mark Bramhall)
Jonathan Lethem - Girl In Landscape (read by David Aaron Baker)
Jonathan Lethem - Men And Cartoons (read by David Aaron Baker, Sandra Bernhard, Kevin Corrigan, Danny Hoch, David Krumholtz, John Linnell, Tim Blake Nelson and Jonathan Lethem)
Jonathan Lethem - The Ecstasy Of Influence (read by Jonathan Lethem and Mark Deakins)
Jonathan Lethem - Lucky Alan (read by Jonathan Lethem, Isaac Butler, Mark Deakins, Michael Goldstrom, Amy Landecker, Bruce Wagner and David Wain)
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Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/91ef68d25b22bc05af9b6b795dcdb4c8/Motherless_Brooklyn.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4ed2d1515a142d12a614a7e2bbefc4a5/The_Fortress_Of_Solitude.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/149e23d20deb17824876f539d5908f32/Gun_With_Occasional_Music.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/955e9a4d17b83d4ba87116fa8c1bd777/Chronic_City.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a2182fc55737db294865d54a8a255894/As_She_Climbed_Across_The_Table.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/74eb3802605e1f287ae1e2acae5cf683/You_Dont_Love_Me_Yet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/95114e9ae39141c77350d74b8f3dda72/Amnesia_Moon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/751f5e349293e4c6d7a3f42f7367f2d6/Dissident_Gardens.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f4fa94277be52e2796754cfa94eb16dc/Girl_In_Landscape.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5271036cb7387a09634f1c904391c068/Men_And_Cartoons.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d2a74e8b102a626c019d36c63fa11005/The_Ecstasy_Of_Influence.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1a762051d0d92a6e46400019e8604e7a/Lucky_Alan.rar.html |
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