Lethem, Jonathan

The Arrest : a novel / Jonathan Lethem - 1st ed - New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers , 2020 - 307 p. ; 24 cm

Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings' life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear.


English

9780062938787


Motion picture authorship----Fiction
Brothers and sisters----Fiction
Screenwriters----Fiction
Nuclear propulsion---Fiction


Los Angeles (Calif )----Fiction

PN4913.L495 / A3 2013

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