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Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
Dissident Gardens
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3.81 40
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780224093958 (0224093959)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels, Literature, Book Club, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Politics, Contemporary, New York
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sologdin
sologdin rated it
3.0
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Nutshell: surly New York leftists re-enact simulacrum of bourgeois family drama.The presentation annoyed me immediately because it focuses on the koestlerian details of picayune totalitarianism--how one fr’instance “could get exiled from the cause for blowing your nose or blinking at suspicious int...
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LitReactor
LitReactor rated it
4.0 BOOKSHOTS REVIEW: Holy Hell, is this what Communism was like?
text BOOKSHOTS REVIEW: Holy Hell, is this what Communism was like?
Title: Dissident Gardens Who wrote it? Jonathan Lethem, the brilliant, wonderful author of Motherless Brooklyn, one of my favorite books. Plot in a Box: A communist Jewish family in all its fucked up glory endures through the 20th Century. Invent a new title for this book : Holy Hell, Is THIS ...
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Doubleday Publishing
Doubleday Publishing rated it
5.0 Dissident Gardens
text Dissident Gardens
Put this one on your to-read list!Lethem creates a masterful portrait of communist Queens, pre-gentrified Brooklyn, and dirty Manhattan in this beautiful homage to the characters who bring the city to life. Good or bad, the population of his homeland is always determined to make the world different...
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Dissident Gardens: A Novel - Jonathan Lethem
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Dissident Gardens: A Novel (Audio) - Jonathan Lethem
Dissident Gardens: A Novel - Jonathan Lethem
Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
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