The Feral Detective

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Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles She s on a quest to find her friend s missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don t want to be found A loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist has a laconic, enigmatic nature that intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe It takes some convincing, but he agrees to help.The unlikely pair traverse California s stunning Inland Empire, navigating the enclaves of hippies and vagabonds who aim to live off the grid They learn that these outcasts exist in warring tribes the Rabbits and the Bears and that Arabella is likely caught in the middle As Phoebe tries to delicately extricate her, she realizes that Heist has a complicated history with these strange groups and that they re all in grave danger.Jonathan Lethem s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn delivers the same memorable delights ecstatic wordplay, warm and deeply felt characters, and an offbeat sense of humor Combined with a vision of California that is at once scruffy and magnificent, The Feral Detective emerges as a transporting, comic, and absolutely unforgettable novel. Best Download The Feral Detective [ author ] Jonathan Lethem [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The Feral Detective is a brilliant noir title right down to its misdirection Charles Heist, the mysterious man at the center of Jonathan Lethem s new novel, is a detective of sorts, but he isn t feral He s Clint Eastwood cool, all self contained and aloof, capable of silencing a room with a glance His native wildness hasn t been domesticated so much as chained He also keeps a live opossum in his office, but I m getting ahead of myself.The good news is that Lethem is back in the PI game, The Feral Detective is a brilliant noir title right down to its misdirection Charles Heist, the mysterious man at the center of Jo...I generally love Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude are two of my most favorite books I also really, really liked Dissident Gardens So I hoped to like this in the same way Which I didn t But it may have suffered from the comparison.Phoebe Siegler is a New York City girl who has had it with the life of an editorial assistant intellectual She heads west to Los Angeles to locate the disappeared daughter of her best friend She has been led to Charlie Heist, the t I generally love Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude are two of my most favorite books I also really, really liked Dissident Gardens So I hoped to like this in the same way Which I didn t But it may have suffered from the comparison.Phoebe Siegler is a New York City girl who has had it with the life of an editorial assistant intellectual She heads west to Los Angeles to locate the disappeared daughter of her best friend She has been led to Charlie Heist, the title s Feral Detective.The ...There was a stretch of time that opening a Jonathan Lethem book was akin to discovering a new room inside my own brain Perhaps this was in part due to shared geography Oakland Berkeley Bay Area, Brooklyn , though just as much of his approach of bridging genres or layering the fantastical on top of our realities My mind is racing through so many of his worlds including the one where the poorest people live in their cars caught in an infinite traffic jam or that love triangle with the man, the There was a stretch of time that opening a Jonathan Lethem book was akin to discovering a new room inside my own brain Perhaps this was in part due to shared geography Oakland Berkeley Bay Area, Brooklyn , though just as much of his approach of bridging genres or layering the fantastical on top of our realities My mind is racing through so many of his worlds including the one where the poorest people live in their cars caught in an infinite traffic jam or that love triangle with the man, the woman and the void In his most recent books, I have caught sparks of brilliance, but by the whole work did not meld morph with my mind And now we stand with The Feral Detective, which travels through new shared geographies ...An entertaining read but felt the characters and scenarios felt contrived When a male author writes in the voice of a female protagonist I try to keep that out of my mind and to not read the book through that lens, to be open to the character s and author s voices But throughout this book I couldn t help but ha...Highest recommendation for this fever dream of a novel Any purchase or perspective on the sense of unreality felt after the election of 2016, from the shock that millions of American adults were willing to trade the ideals of democracy for putting themselves First requires the deep dive this novel offers Television had elected itself, I figured It could watch itself too, for all I cared I read my book I didn t want to have to rescue myself is a sentiment among many I share with protago Highest recommendation for this fever dream of a novel Any purchase or perspective on the sense of unreality felt after the election of 2016, from the shock that millions of American adults were willing to trade the ideals of democracy for putting themselves First requires the deep dive this novel offers Television had elected itself, I figured It could watch itself too, for all I cared I read my book I didn t want to have to rescue myself is a sentiment among many I share with protagonist Phoebe Siegler This classic New Yorker, hip, funny and irreverent finds herself in LA and quickly realizes, to go east from the sea was to go deeper into the west That cowboy, violence soaked lone wolf territory so central to our national self myth, yet opposed to to our global ideal of the City on a Hill is right there waiting, just outside the ...3 1 2 I can t quite put my finger on what really tickled my fancy about this book Could it be that Phoebe is such a cool, sort of protagonist Is it that Charles Heist is almost an anti protagonist, the ultimate mystery man Is it the setting in a part of the California desert that I am very familiar with It is the 60 s cult thing going on that hits my imagination is it the anti Trump fervor that drives Phoebe Probably some o...What to make of this novel I ve enjoyed all the previous Lethem books but this one leaves me cold, bored and asking whatever was he thinking Starting out as a mystery of sorts, it soon regressed into a sort of love story I finished it but not sure why.THE FERAL DETECTIVE 2018 Jonathan LethemDisappointing I have read most of this author s earlier works and was eagerly awaiting this book It turns out that he ended up with a same old, same old type of thriller based on the old story line of looking for a missing girl The narrator was a woman named Phoebe, a friend of the mother of the missing girl She agrees to do what...Really, really out there Not quite sure if I absorbed everything I loved the characters of Phoebe and Heist Lethem has a gift for creating unique characters.Even some 20 years after reading Motherless Brooklyn I can still remember the enchantment of reading it Since then I have been a devoted Jonathan Letham reader Despite being in the midst of a couple other books, I dropped everything to read The Feral Detective I wasexcited than usual because he was returning to the detective genre.When Arabella, the daughter of Phoebe s best friend, goes missing soon after Leonard Cohen s death and the 2016 election, Phoebe, who is at loose ends after Even some 20 years after reading Motherless Brooklyn I can still remember the enchantment of reading it Since then I have been a devoted Jonathan Letham reader Despite being in the midst of a couple other books, I dropped everything to read The Feral Detective I wa...

The Feral Detective
  • 04 November 2017
  • ebook
  • 336 pages
  • 0062859080
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • The Feral Detective