Dissident gardens, a novel, Jonathan Lethem
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Dissident gardens, a novel, Jonathan Lethem
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fiction
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Dissident gardens
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825046472
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Jonathan Lethem
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a novel
Summary
"At the center of Jonathan Lethem's ... novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, 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. Flawed and idealistic, [these] characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference."--Front flap of jacket
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