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Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement , and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and Greenwich Village .
- Jonathan Lethem
- 2013
10 de sept. de 2013 · Dissident Gardens is—in a beautiful and unsettling way—a deeply agnostic novel, only briefly tolerant of any one parent or child’s inner Sturm und Drang. The point is the dissonance, the way in which one life, one ideology, one voice, never quite succeeds at crowding the others out—partly as a result of time and mortality ...
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1 de ene. de 2013 · Dissident Gardens. Jonathan Lethem. 3.27. 4,031 ratings597 reviews. A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals. At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women.
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As illuminating of 20th-century American history as it is of the human burden of overcoming alienation.”. — Publishers Weekly. A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National...
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At 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 and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs.
5 de sept. de 2013 · By Yiyun Li. Sept. 5, 2013. Longtime readers of Jonathan Lethem will not be surprised to learn that New York City is the setting of his new novel, “Dissident Gardens,” though center stage this...
