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The Feral Detective

Jonathan Lethem
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Year
2018
Language
English
Publisher
Atlantic Books

About

A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist - a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer - to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble - caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. Phoebe's trip to the desert was always going to be strange, but it was never supposed to be dangerous...
Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn, The Feral Detective is a singular achievement by one of our greatest writers.

Related Subjects

  • Crime
  • Adult Fiction
  • Literary

Reviews

"The Feral Detective investigates our haunted America in all its contemporary guises - at the edge of the city, beyond the blank desert, in the apartment next door.It's a nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit."
Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
"A rollicking detective story... The Feral Detective is the rare novel that feels like it's being typed onto the page as fast as you can read it."
New York Magazine
"The Feral Detective is one of his nimblest novels, a plucky voyage into the traumatized soul of the Trump era... It's a pleasure to see a smart writer having so much grisly fun."
Washington Post

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Jonathan LethemAuthor

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