The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye

Jonathan Lethem

Macmillan, Jul 15, 1997 - Fiction - 294 pages

A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever, Said the Duck," stored computer personalities scheme to break free of their owners. In these and other stories in this striking collection, Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude" and "Motherless Brooklyn," draws the reader ever more deeply into his strange, unforgettable world-- a trip from which there may be no easy return.

About the author

Jonathan Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 19, 1964. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music was published in 1994. His other works include As She Climbed across the Table (1997), Amnesia Moon (1995), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), You Don't Love Me Yet (2007), Chronic City (2009), and Dissident Gardens (2013). He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn (1999). He also writes short stories, comics and essays. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney's and other periodicals and anthologies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye; A Tom Doherty Associates book
• Author: Jonathan Lethem
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1997
• ISBN: 0312863535, 9780312863531
• Length: 294 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General