| Girl in Landscape Contributor(s): Lethem, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375703918 ISBN-13: 9780375703911 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita. At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors. As the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between two species, Girl in Landscape deftly interweaves themes of exploration and otherness, loss and sexual awakening. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98041173 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.13" W x 7.99" (0.52 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One the irrepressibly inventive Jonathan Lethem could weld science fiction and the Western into a mesmerizing novel of exploration and otherness, sexual awakening and loss. At the age of 13 Pella Marsh loses her mother and her home on the scorched husk that is planet Earth. Her sorrowing family emigrates to the Planet of the Archbuilders, whose mysterious inhabitants have names like Lonely Dumptruck and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that and frightens their human visitors.
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