The Fortress of Solitude - Softcover

Lethem, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571219330 ISBN 13: 9780571219339

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2004

Synopsis

The stunning new novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude spans thirty years in the lives of its characters, and in the life of a neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Within these pages too are the history of soul music, of graffiti art, of experimental film and 'rock writing', and other possibly even more dubious forms of cultural activity. The novel has a cast of over a hundred characters, more than fifty speaking parts. These include two sets of sons and fathers: Mingus Rude and Barrett Rude Jr., and Dylan and Abraham Ebdus. And those four alone will break your heart.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

The stunning new novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn , The Fortress of Solitude spans thirty years in the lives of its characters, and in the life of a neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Within these pages too are the history of soul music, of graffiti art, of experimental film and rock writing and other possibly even more dubious forms of cultural activity.

The novel has a cast of over a hundred characters, more than fifty speaking parts. These include two set of sons and fathers: Mingus Rude and Barrett Rude Jr., and Dylan and Abraham Ebdus. And those four alone will break your heart.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571219330
• ISBN 13: 9780571219339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528