Title: The Fortress of Solitude
Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
Language: English
Published: 07 September 2004
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780375724886
Extension: EPUB
Size: 502 KB
Subjects: Fiction, General, Literary, Race relations, Male friendship, Social Science, Brooklyn (New York; N.Y.), Bildungsromans, Teenage boys, Discrimination & Race Relations
Categories: Fiction, Literature
A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE.
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory.
"A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." - The New York Times Magazine
"One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." - Time
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