Gun With Occasional Music

Jonathan Lethem

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Harcourt Brace
01 September 2003

Science fiction; Cyberpunk

A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder, from the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest

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 a beloved author is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.

By: Jonathan Lethem
Imprint: Harcourt Brace
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780156028974
ISBN 10: 0156028972
Publication Date: 01 September 2003
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Gun With Occasional Music

PRAISE FOR GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC Marries Chandler's style and Philip K. Dick's vision . . . An audaciously assured first novel.-Newsweek Marvelous . . . Stylish, intelligent, darkly humorous and highly readable entertainment.-San Francisco Examiner PRAISE FOR MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN The best novel of the year . . . Utterly original and deeply moving.-Esquire Philip Marlowe would blush. And tip his fedora.-Newsweek --No Source