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Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Gun, with Occasional Music is the book Raymond Chandler might have written if he had spent time on Dr. Moreau’s Island along with Ken Kesey and Philip K. Dick. Okay, he didn’t. So it was left for Jonathan Lethem to step into the gap and delivery this hard-boiled, drugged-out, future-tripping tale of crime and karma on the streets of Oakland.

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