The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye

Jonathan Lethem

earliest edition we have, 1996 Faber, 2002 paperback 232 pages

Seven futuristic stories. In The Happy Man, a dead man is periodically let out of Hell so he can support his family, while in The Hardened Criminals the walls of a jail are made of convicts in suspended animation. By the author of Gun, with Occasional Music.

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Editions we hold

The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye edition · 2014 · Mariner Books · 294 pages · 9780544346215
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye edition · 2007 · Harvest Books · 304 pages · 9780156032483
The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye edition · 2005 · Faber · 232 pages · 9780571225804
The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye paperback · 2002 · Faber · 232 pages
The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye edition · 1997 · TOR · 294 pages
The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye edition · 1996 · Harcourt Brace & Co. · 294 pages

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