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Original Title:	Girl in Landscape
ISBN:	0375703918 (ISBN13: 9780375703911)
Edition Language:	English

Girl in Landscape

Jonathan Lethem

Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 3145 Users | 290 Reviews

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Title	:	Girl in Landscape
Author	:	Jonathan Lethem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	January 26th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Novels

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Lethem's latest genre-bending exploration of science, landscape and the metaphysics of love and loss. A coming of age story about a teenage girl on the frontiers of space.

Pella's father, Clement, has just been swept out of elective office in New York and has set his sights on the next political frontier: joining the first human settlers on the Planet of the Archbuilders. Once the domain of a super-evolved alien species who used "viruses" to alter their ecosystem before abandoning it, the planet is now a hothouse landscape of ruined towers and refuse inhabited only by skittery, mouselike "household deer" and a few remaining Archbuilders.

Clement's mission, to forge a community that embraces the Archbuilders, puts him on a collision course with Ephram Nugent, a xenophobic homesteader.

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I want to mention, but skip over aspects of Girl in landscape likely to be covered by other reviewers. It certainly stands out because of its genre bending of Western and Science Fiction tale. It is clearly an homage of sorts to The Searchers. It is other aspects of the book that made it very moving to read. It should not be overlooked that it is a wonderful coming-of-age story (or bildungsromane to quote the German literary term). Pella Marsh is a young woman forced to grow up far too quickly

It appears necessary that I begin my review with a true story. I was enjoying reading in the pregnant sunshine, robins flirted in the leaves behind me, a gentle breeze stirred the budding trees. I was not, however, enjoying this novel, in fact, I was sighing as I sped along. Suddenly the novel in question was targeted by an Avian Airborne Excrement attack. Now i have experienced the white drops of British sketch comedy before. This was a blast, it nearly tore the book from stunned fingers. I

"...it was like a chance to step into a picture-book world, where hide-and-seek had only to do with a delight in faces hidden and uncovered" (Girl in Landscape, 201). Never stopped with the fun and never stopped with the heart. Reading it, I felt like a house-deer under a giant sky. Can't wait to revisit.

This one is a strange mix even for genre-bending genius Jonathon Lethem. "Girl in Landscape" combines a young girl's coming of age and awakening sexuality with an alien landscape and the strange relationships between human and alien beings. At times charting the landscapes of children and adults and the odd spaces in between, at others chronicling failure, loss and the inherent possibility of settling a new world. This is my favorite of his novels. It is poignant and lovely, quirky and curious,

I have absolutely no interest in science fiction in any capacity. I also am deeply terrified of outer space and I once had a dream about my dad being abducted by aliens through my parents' kitchen window that left me unable to sleep without the bathroom light on for years.I found Girl in Landscape on my bookshelf. I have no memory of purchasing it, and my boyfriend says he's never seen it before. I have a ton of books cluttering my shelves right now, so I picked this up with the intention of

(Having just read Johnny's review, I have to throw in my 2 cents.)I liked this one, but it's not one of my favorite scifi novels. The allusions to John Ford's The Searchers are pretty interesting. Good characters, very involving narrative, and a better-than-average scifi mise en scene. The novel reminded me a bit of Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip.I was just a little disappointed that the story ended up basically revolving around sex taboos... I mean, heading off to explore a new planet and

If every book were like Jonathan Lethem's Girl in Landscape I'd probably never talk to anyone ever again. That'd not be such a bad thing, really (I mean for everybody else. I can be a right pain in the ass). I could move to a new frontier and read all day. (Start my own planet!) Everything would be the great read that makes me feel fullfilled. Longing sigh.'Landscape' I read in one sitting on a ass numbingly long flight. That I didn't notice anything else around me was amazing. That's what I