Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. 

Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385491832
  • ISBN13 9780385491839
  • Publish Date 14 September 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 July 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 311
  • Language English