Ann Levin of the Huffington Post reviews Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem, who visits Albany
tomorrow:
Jonathan Lethem's latest novel, "Dissident Gardens," is a tour de force, a brilliant, satiric journey through America's dissident history from 1930s-era communism to today's Occupy movement.
Its central character is Rose Zimmer, a staunch member of the American Communist Party whose affair with a black policeman draws the wrath of party apparatchiks. After getting booted from the party, she turns her energy to community organizing in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, a housing development built in the 1920s to provide well-designed, affordable apartments with communal gardens to the urban working class.
More in the Huff Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130909/us-book-review-dissident-gardens/?utm_hp_ref=style&ir=style
More about Lethem's visit to Albany on 9/11: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/lethem_jonathan13.html
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Lethem's New Novel Reviewed in Elle Magazine
"This novel's powerful and polarizing cultural, political, and racial energies are animated by a typically Lethem-esque cast of zanies, communalists, sexual adventurers, innocents, druggies, dreamers, and do-gooders -- cosmopolitans all -- whose lives collide and clash with gut-busting humor, heart, and hubris, which Lethem delivers in his seductively vertiginous prose."
Lethem's new novel is reviewed in the September 2013 issue of Elle (not available yet online).
Lethem visits us Wednesday, September 11th: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/lethem_jonathan13.html
Here are some more reviews: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/212150/dissident-gardens-by-jonathan-lethem#praise
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