A father’s nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted 'blog' … Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting – a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy work in harmony, and a modern master of American letters entertains and dazzles us once again, as only he can.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784701635
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 148 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
Sharp, sad, sophisticated, funny and sometimes exceedingly strange - Kate Saunders, The Times
Lucky Alan is worth reading for those stories that convey so adroitly people’s beleaguered attempts to communicate with one another. - Hannah Beckerman, Guardian
Intriguing. - Aamer Hussein, Independent
The confidence of Lethem’s narration and the clarity of his language save any of this from whimsy: that’s a tough trick to pull off, but Lethem does it over and over again. No wonder he won a MacArthur fellowship (the famous “genius grant”) a decade ago. - Erica Wagner, Financial Times
A powerful glimpse into where Lethem is as a writer right now. - Bookmunch (Blog)
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