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Jan 1, 1999 · Jonathan Lethem. 3.86. 41,162 ratings3,582 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 1, 1999 · 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).
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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...
Motherless Brooklyn. By JONATHAN LETHEM. Read the Review. Walks Into. Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker...
Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. Told in first person, the story follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator who has Tourette's, a disorder marked by involuntary tics.
Aug 14, 1999 · Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem has an overall rating of Rave based on 8 book reviews.
Nov 1, 2012 · Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town.
