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Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement , and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and Greenwich Village .
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Sep 5, 2013 · Sept. 5, 2013. Longtime readers of Jonathan Lethem will not be surprised to learn that New York City is the setting of his new novel, “Dissident Gardens,” though center stage this time is...
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Jan 1, 2013 · Dissident Gardens. Jonathan Lethem. 3.27. 4,031 ratings597 reviews. 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.
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Jun 3, 2014 · Dissident Gardens (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback – June 3, 2014. by Jonathan Lethem (Author) 3.3 277 ratings. See all formats and editions. A New York Times Notable Book. One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail.
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Sep 10, 2013 · 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 who savages neighbors, family ...
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As illuminating of 20th-century American history as it is of the human burden of overcoming alienation.”. — Publishers Weekly. A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National...
Sep 11, 2013 · Jonathan Lethem's latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is expansive in scale. Chronologically speaking, it begins in the 1930s with Communist Party meetings in the U.S. It passes through the...
