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I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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New York City
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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