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The Fortress of Solitude : a novel by Jonathan Lethem is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Fortress of Solitude : a novel about?
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, g
Who reads The Fortress of Solitude : a novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jonathan Lethem
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press; Brand: Thorndike Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786259960
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (533 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage Contemporaries) (2018)
- حصن العزلة [Arabic] (2003)
- The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage Contemporaries) (2003)
- The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage Contemporaries) (2004)
- The Fortress of Solitude : a Novel (2004)
- The Fortress of Solitude : a Novel (2005)
- The Fortress of Solitude : a Novel (2011)
- La Forteresse de solitude (2006)
- La Fortaleza de la Soledad (2003)