The Vision
From Jonathan Lethem's classic collection, Men and Cartoons, a haunting, playful story about dress-up, superheroes, Mafia, love and treachery. I first met the kid known as the Vision at second base, during a kickball game in the P.S. 29 gymnasium, the narrator, Joel, explains. Decades later the Vision returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood, no longer a young boy who dresses up in superhero costumes but a confident adult. But at a party with several mysterious visitors the Vision reveals some secrets still lingering, as the partygoers turn from party games to the uneasy weight of truth. This is an exemplary story from a modern master-poignan…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-91090-0
- EAN: 9781101910900
- Produktnummer: 16892787
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 24 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'509 KB
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Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, three story collections and several works of nonfiction, including The Ecstasy of Influence, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Lethem's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times, among other publications.
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