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Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel Reprint edition
Jonathan Lethem
Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel Reprint edition
Jonathan Lethem
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.
Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.
288 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 1, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780156028974 |
Publishers | HarperCollins |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 135 × 203 × 19 mm · 272 g |
Language | English |
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