{"product_id":"girl-in-landscape-paperback","title":"Girl in Landscape - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl in Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. \u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003e\"Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl in Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's \"100 People for the New Century\" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction\/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita. \u003cbr\u003eAt the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors. \u003cbr\u003eAs the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between two species, Girl in Landscape deftly interweaves themes of exploration and otherness, loss and sexual awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103159881951,"sku":"9780375703911","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jtV_Wyk1PQ9780375703911.webp?v=1781090403","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/girl-in-landscape-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}