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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571226320
eBay Product ID (ePID)90059974
Product Key Features
Publication Year2004
TopicBooks
Book TitleMotherless Brooklyn
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJonathan Lethem
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight247 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJonathan Lethem