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A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award & a New York Times Notable BookThe inspiration behind the major motion picture°°° “Who but Jonathan Lethem would attempt a half-satirical cross between a literary novel & a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette’s syndrome?...The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity... Lethem is a verbal performance artisit...Unexpectedly moving.” — Boston Globe "Utterly original & deeply moving." — Esquire °°° Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, & rip apart our language in startling & original ways. Together with 3 veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. 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, & the victim's widow skips

Who reads Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)?

Author

Lethem, Jonathan

Publisher

Vintage Books, Penguin Random House

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307789129

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (3,131 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14