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Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

A major motion picture starring Edward Norton, Motherless Brooklyn was released in cinemas in November 2019.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571226320
Date Published
01.07.2004
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Summary

A major motion picture starring Edward Norton, Motherless Brooklyn was released in cinemas in November 2019.

Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette’s syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent’s Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective. With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette’s itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.

JonathanLethem

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He has also…

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