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Motherless BrooklynBy JONATHAN LETHEMDoubleday. Motherless Brooklyn. By JONATHAN LETHEM. Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's.
This is amply apparent nearly a third of the way into his new novel, ''Motherless Brooklyn,'' another go-round with the hard-boiled genre. After the obligatory opening -- a stakeout that culminates in the murder of a detective's boss -- Lethem provides a dilatory flashback to fill us in on the principals: Frank Minna, a small-time operator and ...
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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Oct 31, 2019 · Warner Bros. October 31, 2019. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel, was defined partly by nostalgia. Set in contemporary times, it had the flavor of a classic gumshoe thriller...
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...
Nov 1, 2012 · —The New York Times Book Review “Who but Jonathan Lethem would attempt a half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette’s syndrome?…The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity…Jonathan Lethem is a verbal performance artisit…Unexpectedly moving.”
