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A Different Kind of Tension
A Literary Fiction Novel by Jonathan Lethem
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Coming-of-Age,
- Surrealist Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories where bohemian superheroes and talking animals cross paths
- Literary fiction that flips between surreal absurdity and everyday struggles
- Characters wrestling with authority, connection, and malfunctioning technology
This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best work spanning more than three decades.
A major new story, "The Red Sun School of Thoughts," never published before, follows a teenage boy coming to terms with figures of authority and power—those in both his biological family and in the family he creates for himself.
Elsewhere we meet "Super Goat Man," a down-at-heels bohemian superhero; "The Porn Critic," whose accidental expertise wrecks his own romantic aspirations; and "Sleepy People," who pose interpersonal conundrums without ever rousing from their slumber.
Fluidly moving between realism and the surreal, the absurd and the mundane, A Different Kind of Tension is a container bursting with life and death, couples in trouble, talking animals, and technologies on the fritz. Through it all are people longing to be seen and to connect; to thrive, love, and be forgiven.
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