Motherless Brooklyn 1999
By Jonathan Lethem, J. LETHEM, Professor of the History of Science Geoffrey Cantor
- Private investigators, Orphans, Fiction, Patients
From Amazon: 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.
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Contemporary and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Hwanggŭm Kaji, Doubleday
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, Russian, Korean, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780571197972
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