Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude
$42.30
- Hardcover
848 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
In honor of the 25th anniversary of Motherless Brooklyn, a beautifully published Everyman’s Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the most acclaimed novels by one of America’s most inventive novelists.
Motherless Brooklyn is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Brooklyn’s self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184159430X |
| Author: | Jonathan Lethem |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 848 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 861g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 136mm x 212mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
Philip Marlowe would blush. And tip his fedora. * Newsweek *
Utterly original and deeply moving * Esquire *
The Fortress of Solitude:
One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year…. Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling.
In The Fortress of Solitude (Lethem’s) love of Brooklyn suffuses every paragraph; his understanding of the dynamics of inner-city life is equally sharp whether he is describing a game of handball, a routine mugging or a shoplifting jaunt. Rarely has the anxious adventure of childhood been evoked better. * Guardian *
Jonathan Lethem
JONATHAN LETHEM is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications.
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