Girl in Landscape **SIGNED**

Lethem, Jonathan 1964-

ISBN 10: 0385485182 / ISBN 13: 9780385485180

Published by Doubleday & Company, New York NY, 1998

About this Item

Lethem's fourth novel presents Pella Marsh,a 14 year old heroine, who escapes a dying Earth with her family to a new world and much to learn and experience. This copy is in good condition for an EX-LIB copy with the usual stampings, labels of a withdrawn public library book but with a tight, straight binding.It is a first printing simply signed by Lethem on the title page . The bright dustjacket is in clear mylar covering and the book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Girl in Landscape **SIGNED**
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York NY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385485182
• ISBN 13: 9780385485180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem once again twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale that manages to move and amaze the reader at the same time.



In his new novel, Lethem blends elements as diverse as John Ford's classic Western "The Searchers" and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in an utterly unique way. The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders.



Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western.

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n Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem once again twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale that manages to move and amaze the reader at the same time.



In his new novel, Lethem blends elements as diverse as John Ford's classic Western "The Searchers" and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in an utterly unique way. The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders.



Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual a