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41,053 ratings3,573 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.
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.
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.
From Publishers Weekly. Hard-boiled crime fiction has never seen the likes of Lionel Essrog, the barking, grunting, spasmodically twitching hero of Lethem's gonzo detective novel that unfolds amidst the detritus of contemporary Brooklyn.
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 ...
$18.00. Oct 24, 2000 | ISBN 9780375724831. Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers: Ebook. +. About Motherless Brooklyn. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America’s most inventive novelist.
Jonathan Lethem. Motherless Brooklyn Paperback – Import, January 1, 2000. by Jonathan Lethem (Author) 4.1 3,195 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 startling and original ways.
