Bibliograph

Motherless Brooklyn, a novel, Jonathan Lethem

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Motherless Brooklyn, a novel, Jonathan Lethem

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Motherless Brooklyn

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Lethem

Sub title

a novel

Summary

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.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. Together with three 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, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is..

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