000694641 000__ 02920cam\a22003854i\4500 000694641 001__ 694641 000694641 005__ 20210515093703.0 000694641 008__ 130618s2013\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000694641 010__ $$a 2013021139 000694641 019__ $$a857545476$$a858693634$$a859650103 000694641 020__ $$a9780385534932$$qhardcover 000694641 020__ $$a0385534930$$qhardcover 000694641 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn825046472 000694641 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dOCLCO$$dUPZ$$dOI6$$dZS3$$dABG$$dJP3$$dCOO$$dVP@$$dXII$$dCDX$$dCHVBK$$dZCU$$dIUL 000694641 042__ $$apcc 000694641 049__ $$aISEA 000694641 05000 $$aPS3562.E8544$$bD67 2013 000694641 08200 $$a813/.54$$223 000694641 1001_ $$aLethem, Jonathan. 000694641 24510 $$aDissident gardens :$$ba novel /$$cJonathan Lethem. 000694641 250__ $$aFirst Edition. 000694641 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bDoubleday,$$c[2013] 000694641 300__ $$a366 pages ;$$c25 cm 000694641 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000694641 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000694641 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000694641 520__ $$a"A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose's suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her nephew, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. These flawed, idealistic people all struggle to follow their own utopian dreams in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As the decades pass--from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment--we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Brilliantly constructed as it weaves across time and among characters, Dissident Gardens is riotous and haunting, satiric and sympathetic--and a joy to read"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000694641 650_0 $$aFamily life$$vFiction. 000694641 650_0 $$aRadicals$$vFiction. 000694641 650_0 $$aCity and town life$$vFiction. 000694641 650_0 $$aPolitics and government$$vFiction. 000694641 655_7 $$aUrban fiction.$$2lcgft 000694641 655_7 $$aSatirical literature.$$2lcgft 000694641 655_7 $$aThrillers (Fiction).$$2lcgft 000694641 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3562.E8544$$iD67$$i2013 000694641 85642 $$3Cover image$$u9780385534932.jpg 000694641 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:694641$$pGLOBAL_SET 000694641 980__ $$aBIB 000694641 980__ $$aBOOK