Jonathan Lethem

A Different Kind of Tension (eBook, ePUB)

New and Selected Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form. Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem's stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay (Chicago Tribune).

This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best work spanning more than three decades. A major new story, The Red Sun School of Thoughts, never published elsewhere, follows a teenaged boy coming to terms with figures of authority and powerthose both in his own biological family and in the family he creates for himself.

Elsewhere we meet Super Goat Man, a down-at-heels bohemian superhero; The Porn Critic, whose accidental expertise wrecks his own romantic aspirations; and Sleepy People, who pose interpersonal conundrums without ever rousing from their slumber. Fluidly moving between realism and the surreal, the absurd and the mundane, A Different Kind of Tension is a container bursting with life and death, couples in trouble, talking animals, technologies on the fritz. Through it all are people longing to be seen and to connect; to thrive, love, and be forgiven. This is the joy of reading Jonathan Lethem: you never know what you're going to get (Financial Times).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063388857
• Artikelnr.: 72671331

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.