Jonathan Lethem

The Arrest (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detectiveand Motherless Brooklyncomes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.

The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted-cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters-quits working. . . .

Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt.

Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was.Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way.Plopping back into the siblings' life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza?Whatever he's up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him.

Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrestis speculative fiction at its absolute finest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ecco
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062938794
• Artikelnr.: 58624545

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Lethemis 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 Cartoonsand Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared inthe New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, andthe Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion inThe Best American Short Stories.He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.