Lethem, author of the bestselling Motherless Brooklyn, returns in concentrated form - packing twice the adventure into one-eighth the pages. This book could be some kind of allegory book, but it might not be an allegory book at all. It involves people and drinking and people looking for a giant eye. It is among the best things Mr. Lethem has written. This book is a very slim hardcover book, and it is priced at $9. It is be priced at $9 because Mr. Lethem asked McSweeney's how low a book of this size could be priced without everyone losing money. "Could we get it under $10?" he asked. We did some math and guessed that $9 would be possible.
"He dazzles with the uniquely Lethemesque wordplay that simultaneously displays razor-like precision and dreamy surrealism."
-Baltimore City Paper
"Witty and inventive."
-New York Times
"Jonathan Lethem's latest work of fiction weighs in at only 55 pages, but they are strange and intelligent and wonderful pages."
-Rain Taxi
