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Original Title:	Motherless Brooklyn
ISBN:	0375724834 (ISBN13: 9780375724831)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lionel Essrog, Frank Minna
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1999), The Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction (2000)

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

Paperback | Pages: 311 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 32145 Users | 2854 Reviews

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Title	:	Motherless Brooklyn
Author	:	Jonathan Lethem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 311 pages
Published	:	October 24th 2000 by Vintage (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Novels. New York

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Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

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In detective stories things are always always, the detective casting his exhausted, caustic gaze over the corrupted permanence of everything and thrilling you with his sweetly savage generalizations. This or that runs deep or true to form, is invariable, exemplary. Oh sure. Seen it before, will see it again. Trust me on this one. Assertions and generalizations are, of course, a version of Tourettes. A way of touching the world, handling it, covering it with confirming language.This was a very

Well, shoot.  Despite the many 4 and 5 star reviews from my GR buddies, I failed to get a grip with this one.  At first the ticcing, touching, tapping, mirroring, and counting by Lionel Essrog (aka Freakshow) was entertaining and funny.  But soon, it became tiresome and repetitive to me.  And then I felt bad, because I could make it stop it by putting the book aside, a resolution that was not available to  Lionel.  There is some clever writing in here, and a scene set in a Japanese restaurant

I'd always planned on really loving this book, not sure why or how that started but it was probably when Fortress of Solitude came out and I really loved that (really loved the first half, anyway) and a bunch of people told me Motherless Brooklyn was even better. It sounded like something I'd like a lot, so I've tried every few years since then but could never make it in past the beginning. This time, though, I did, and read the whole thing pretty quickly and without too much groaning or whining

Every few months a book gets past my quality control screening. I ought to stop beating myself up over that fact. Generally I am happy to outsource my opinions about books not yet read to smarter people; I must have lapsed this time out, tempted by the $0.3333 price tag for a recognized yet unknown author with a sexy name. I had a strong desire to drop this text at page 30, but my inexperience with positively negative reviews naively committed myself to reading the whole damn thing merely for

Motherless Brooklyn is a beautifully written novel about a complicated man named Lionel Essrog who is an orphan and a sufferer of Tourette's. As we all know about Tourette's, the syndrome causes you to spurt out words (sometimes profanity) during periods of stress in order to ease an internal undying mental angst. Lionel also suffers from OCD and the infinite need to count things...to mix words in his head and regurgitate them in order to sort through the chaos that is everday life for a hood in

Is Jonathan Lethem a genius? A virtuoso? (to use the terms used ad naus. in The Loser) I think not. Is Motherless Brooklyn a work of genius? Also no. But that doesn't mean it isn't still awesome.Lethem's deconstruction of the detective novel is painfully obvious. He fashions his protagonist by stripping him of one of the most recognizable traits of the hard-boiled private eye--laconism. Lionel Essrog doesn't have a way with words; they have their way with him. Every time he questions someone to

My favourite novel of the year.Lionel Essrog is a loveable orphan who has Tourette's. He and three of his fellow orphans are taken under the wing of Frank Minna, a small-time hustler with mob connections. Lionel hero worships the sharply dressed smooth talking Frank. Eventually Frank sets up a detective agency but something very bad happens to him and Lionel has to discover who did it. This is a novel that ticks all the boxes. It's full of suspense, rife with great plot twists, fabulously