{"product_id":"dissident-gardens-9780307744494","title":"Dissident Gardens","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called \"as ambitious as  Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylan\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Rose's influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethem's vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307744494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.49h x 5.26w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/29\/2014 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Lethem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273721508021,"sku":"9780307744494","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3e20fc96-1b75-466e-ab7a-9b3e793adab3.jpg?v=1718082189","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dissident-gardens-9780307744494","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}