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Motherless Brooklyn ; The fortress of solitude / Jonathan Lethem ; with an introduction by Charles Yu.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E8544 A6 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lethem, Jonathan, author.
- Series:
- Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 430.
- Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 430
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private investigators--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- Tourette syndrome--Patients--Fiction.
- Tourette syndrome.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 807 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Summary:
- Motherless Brooklyn: A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
- The Fortress of solitude: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mungus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibiliographical references (page xv).
- Contains:
- Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn. 1999.
- Lethem, Jonathan. Fortress of solitude. 2003.
- ISBN:
- 1101908483
- 9781101908488
- OCLC:
- 1412167827
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