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About the Book

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside-down, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case, while trying to keep the words straight in his head. A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.

About the Author :
Jonathan Lethem is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem's stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. He lives in New York City. Geoffrey Cantor is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College. His stage work includes the Broadway play Side Man, as well as Romeo and Juliet and Dinner with Friends. On television, he has appeared on The Sopranos and Law & Order, and his film credits include Public Enemies, When in Rome, and Heavy Petting.

Review :
Motherless Brooklyn, is, among other things, a tale of orphans, a satire of Zen in the city, and a murder mystery. -- "Time Out New York" A brilliantly imagined riff on the classic detective tale...Don't miss this one. -- "Kirkus Reviews" Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. -- "Time" Gripping, mournful, touching, and comic...One of the greatest feats of first-person narration in recent American fiction. -- "Washington Post " Immerses us in the mind's dense thicket, a place where words split and twine in an ever-deepening tangle. -- "New York Times Book Review" In Essrog...Lethem has fashioned a lovably strange man-child and fill his cross-wired mind with a crashing, self-referential interior monologue that is at once laugh-out-loud funny, tender, and in the honest service of a terrific story. -- "Washington Post Book World" Jonathan Lethem is one of the most original voices among younger American novelists...His imagination [is] marvelously fertile. -- "Newsday" Lethem's sixth sense for the secret enchantments of language and the psyche...make [Motherless Brooklyn] well worth the ride. -- "Publishers Weekly" Most rewarding...Delightfully oddball. -- "New Yorker" Philip Marlowe would blush. And tip his fedora. -- "Newsweek" Superbly balances beautiful writing and an engrossing plot. -- "Atlanta Journal Constitution" The author has applied his trademark genre-bending style to fine effect. Already well known among critics for his literary gifts, Lethem should gain a wider readership with this appealing book's debut. -- "Library Journal" The best novel of the year...Utterly original and deeply moving. -- "Esquire" Who but Jonathan Lethem would attempt a half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome?...The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity...Lethem is a verbal performance artist...Unexpectedly moving. -- "Boston Globe" With one unique and well-imagined character, Jonathan Lethem has turned a genre on its ear. He doesn't just push the envelope, he gives it a swift kick...A tour de force. -- "Denver Post" Wonderfully inventive, slightly absurdist...[Motherless Brooklyn] is funny and sly, clever, compelling, and endearing. -- "USA Today"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781482991321
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1482991322
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jan 2014
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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