Bibliograph

Gun, with occasional music, Jonathan Lethem

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Label

Gun, with occasional music, Jonathan Lethem

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Gun, with occasional music

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

759581953

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Lethem

Series statement

A Harvest book

Summary

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

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