Dissident gardens a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307940926 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307940926 (electronic audio bk.)
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1 online resource (1 onine resource (1 sound file, 16 hr., 6 min.)) - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, [2013]
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General Note: | Release date supplied by distributor. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Mark Bramhall. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Women radicals -- Fiction Magic -- Fiction Time travel -- Fiction Urban fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
A multigenerational saga focuses on two extraordinary women including tyrannical Communist Rose, who terrorizes her neighborhood with her absolute beliefs; and her brilliant but willful daughter, Miriam, who flees her mother's suffocating influence to embrace the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
A multigenerational saga focuses on two extraordinary women; Rose, a tyrannical Communist who terrorizes her neighborhood with her absolute beliefs, and her daughter Miriam, who embraces the counterculture of Greenwich Village. - Findaway World Llc
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writersâan epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
At the center of Jonathan Lethemâs superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Roseâs influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.
    These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Roseâs aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriamâs (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethemâs characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.
    As the decades passâfrom the parlor communism of the â30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged â70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the momentâwe come to understand through Lethemâs extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.
    Lethemâs characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H, but his novel isâat its mesmerizing, beating heartâabout love. - Random House Digital
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicalsAt the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.Ã Ã Ã Ã These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem's characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.Ã Ã Ã Ã As the decades pass--from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment--we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.Ã Ã Ã Ã Lethem's characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H, but his novel is--at its mesmerizing, beating heart--about love.From the Hardcover edition.