Motherless Brooklyn

Product Description SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday TimesLionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives 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 mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case. Review A terrific novel . . . Lionel makes you laugh in an embarrass-yourself-on-the-train fashion. ― The Times A detective novel with a difference . . . Lethem has created one of fiction's most memorable narrators. ― Guardian Utterly original and deeply moving. ― Esquire A dazzlingly virtuosic thriller. ― Harpers and Queen Book Description A new edition of the cult classic to coincide with a major film release in November 2019. About the Author 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 written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.He lives in Brooklyn, New York.