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Jonathan Lethem

Biography

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of 13 novels, including THE ARREST, THE FERAL DETECTIVE, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.

Jonathan Lethem

Books by Jonathan Lethem

by Jonathan Lethem - Fiction, Literary Fiction

Like some sort of Mendelian hybrid, Lethem's MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN is a cross between a classic detective story, a satire of that same story, and a literary exegesis on the infinite complexities of language.