The Arrest isn\'t post-apocalypse.
Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he\'s up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him.
Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest.
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.
He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.
He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year\'s Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.
His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney\'s and many other periodicals.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Plopping back into the siblings\' life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear.
Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way.
But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor.
There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm.
Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine.
That didn\'t hurt.
Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was.
An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood.
It\'s just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops working...
Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.
A.
It isn\'t a utopia.
It isn\'t a dystopia.
The Arrest isn\'t post-apocalypse
