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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Lethem, Jonathan, author.     Subjects     Families -- Fiction.     Radicals -- Fiction.     City and town life -- Fiction.     United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lethem, Jonathan, author.       by title:      Dissident gardens [e...         MARC Display

Dissident gardens [electronic resource] : a novel / Jonathan Lethem. by Lethem, Jonathan, author. New York : Doubleday, c2013. Subjects Families -- Fiction.   Radicals -- Fiction.   City and town life -- Fiction.   United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=22202095-68F4-426A-B502-97963F05F0B5 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{22202095-68F4-426A-B502-97963F05F0B5}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385534949 (electronic bk.) 0385534949 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (366 pages) Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At 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 and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose's suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her nephew, 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. These flawed, idealistic people all struggle to follow their own utopian dreams in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. 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. Brilliantly constructed as it weaves across time and among characters, Dissident Gardens is riotous and haunting, satiric and sympathetic--and a joy to read"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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