A Meaningful Life
$34.97
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2009
Summary
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful cr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173008 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590173007 |
| Author: | L.J. Davis, Jonathan Lethem |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 253g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 127mm |
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A rediscovered American classic from the 1970s, this is a darkly comic portrayal of broken dreams. Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
About The Author
L.J. Davis
L. J. Davis was an author and prize-winning journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Harper’s, among other publications.
Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. He lives in Brooklyn and in Maine.
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