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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-10 Pages: 366 Language: English Publisher: Doubleday Books A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers-an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicalsAt 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 who savages neighbors. family. and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs Her precocious and willful daughter. Miriam. equally passionate in her activism. flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband. Albert; her cousin. the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush ; Cicero Lookins. the brilliant son of her b...
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"The cast makes for a heady, swirly mix of fascinating, lonely people. Lethem’s writing, as always, packs a witty punch. The epoch each character inhabits is artfully etched and the book is as illuminating of 20th-century American history as it is of the human burden of overcoming alienation." (Publisher's Weekly)
"Lethem is breathtaking in this torrent of potent voices, searing ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities. He shreds the folk scene, eviscerates quiz shows...and offers unusual perspectives on societal debacles and tragic injustices. A righteous, stupendously involving novel about the personal toll of failed political movements and the perplexing obstacles to doing good." (Booklist (starred review))
"Lethem has written a brilliant, funny, compendious novel at whose heart lies a sharp, slim blade of thought and style." (Rachel Cusk Guardian)
"Superb... Dissident Gardens can be placed squarely in the canon of the great American social novel." (Ayana Mathis Financial Times)
"This epic family novel criss-crosses generations from the Fifties to the present day." (Tatler)
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"Lethem is breathtaking in this torrent of potent voices, searing ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities. He shreds the folk scene, eviscerates quiz shows...and offers unusual perspectives on societal debacles and tragic injustices. A righteous, stupendously involving novel about the personal toll of failed political movements and the perplexing obstacles to doing good." (Booklist (starred review))
"Lethem has written a brilliant, funny, compendious novel at whose heart lies a sharp, slim blade of thought and style." (Rachel Cusk Guardian)
"Superb... Dissident Gardens can be placed squarely in the canon of the great American social novel." (Ayana Mathis Financial Times)
"This epic family novel criss-crosses generations from the Fifties to the present day." (Tatler)
A dazzling novel from one of America's finest writers – the story of three generations of a radical New York family
Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize
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