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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.
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Review
A great and breathtaking novel. -- Sleazenation
A work of painfully conceived authorial honesty -- The Scotsman, January 2004
American critics are already hailing this ambitious, luminous, invigorating and exuberant novel as a masterpiece -- Spectator, January 2004
Dazzling ... at once wildly ambitious and quietly intimate. -- New York Times, September 2003
Funny, sad and highly readable. -- Independent, December 2003
Intelligent and captivating: an outstanding novel. -- Vogue, January 2004
Probably the one American novel this year you absolutely must read. -- Rick Moody, Daily Telegraph
‘Terrifically entertaining: a fine, rich thoughtful novel from one of our best writers.’ -- Kirkus Reviews
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic books heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0571219330
- ISBN 13 9780571219339
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages528
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