Girl in Landscape

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 qu......more

CRITIQUE: What Makes a Man or Woman Wander? This novel was designed as a work of post-apocalyptic science fiction, although it owes much to John Ford's Western film "The Searchers". The girl's name is Pella Marsh. Shortly after the death of her mother (Caitlin), she, her father (Clement) and two younge......more

’Paisaje con muchacha’ (Girl in Landscape, 1998), del escritor estadounidense Jonathan Lethem, es una novela de ciencia ficción con reminiscencias del western, pero desde una óptica realista. La familia Marsh, compuesta por los padres Clement y Caitlin, y por los hijos de ambos, Pella, Raymond y Dav......more

Video review Lethem takes on classic sci-fi in a tale of planetary discovery that mixes seamlessly personal and communal tragedy, the Girl and the Landscape.......more

I like science fiction more as a setting than a genre. Too much of the writing that falls under that banner seems like the well-informed prattling of Asperger sufferers who used world-building as catharsis. Whether it's steam-punk Victorian era or a million years in the future, my deepest desire is......more