The Disappointment Artist

The Disappointment ArtistBy: Jonathan Lethem A mixture of personal memory and cultural commentary, The Disappointment Artist offers a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Jonathan Lethem's richly imaginative perspective on life at the end of the twentieth century. Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. In

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and Vera Rubin—through kid-friendly texts and full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page

he finds a dark pathway laced with twists and deadly secrets that touch a little too close to home

sworn to crush a world that adores and respects them

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