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1. www.kirkusreviews.com › motherless-brooklynMOTHERLESS BROOKLYN | Kirkus Reviews

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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 · 41,061ratings3,574reviews. Kindle $12.99. 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...

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   In ''Motherless Brooklyn,'' solving the crime is beside the point. If you're a mystery maven, this might bother you. Instead, this is a novel about the mysteries of consciousness, the dualism Essrog alludes to when he talks about his ''Tourette's brain'' as if it were an entity apart from him.

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   Aug 14, 1999 · Based on 8 reviews. Rave. Positive. Mixed. Pan. What The Reviewers Say. Rave Brian Logan, The Guardian. Author Jonathan Lethem...has created, from what sounds like a ludicrous gimmick, one of fiction's most memorable narrators. Through Lionel - nickname Freakshow - he explores the relationship between what makes us tic and what makes us tick ...

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   Oct 24, 2000 · Motherless Brooklyn. Paperback – October 24, 2000. by Jonathan Lethem (Author) 4.1 3,248 ratings. See all formats and editions. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist.