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Oct 1, 1999 · amazon. A brilliantly imagined riff on the classic detective tale: the fifth high-energy novel in five years from the rapidly maturing prodigy whose bizarre black-comic fiction includes, most recently, Girl in Landscape (1998). Lethem’s delirious yarn about crime, pursuit, and punishment, is narrated in a unique voice by its embattled ...
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Jan 1, 2001 · 3.86. 41,072 ratings3,577 reviews. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways.
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Oct 31, 2019 · The unique experience of reading Motherless Brooklyn is staying inside Lionel's head, confined to its tics and loops while also witness to the odd rigors that make him such an excellent...
Oct 31, 2019 · ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker. The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan...
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The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction [2] and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. [3] Albert Mobilio of The New York Times wrote: Under the guise of a detective novel, Lethem has written a more piercing tale of investigation, one revealing how the mind drives on its own "wheels within wheels."
Mar 29, 2002 · Joshua Klein. Published March 29, 2002. Comments ( 2) Books Reviews. Motherless Brooklyn. Author. Jonathan Lethem. Some of the best detective fiction succeeds on the strength of the...
Aug 14, 1999 · Motherless Brooklyn. Jonathan Lethem. Buy Now. Indiebound. Publisher. Doubleday. Date. August 14, 1999. Award Winners. Fiction. Literary. Mystery, Crime, & Thriller. When Lionel Essrogg's longtime mentor, Minna Frank is murdered, Lionel must turn detective, and find the killer—without letting his Tourette's get in the way.
