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Book Description
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, naContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Brutal but beautiful Brooklyn
There is currently a vogue for the all-encompassing, minutiaecrunching, self-regarding, state- of-the-changed-nation American novel. All too many of these are prone to solidification and gigantism, careless of content and reader-fatigue, and prone to ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 528 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0375724885
- ISBN-13: 9780375724886
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Aug 24, 2004
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780375724886 | Paperback | $15.00 | $10.80 | bn.com |
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Heroic failure
The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem Faber £7.99, pp511 Jonathan Lethem made his name with updated takes on genre fiction - sci-fi in Amnesia Moon, hard-boiled crime in Motherless Brooklyn - but The Fortress of Solitude was hailed on publication ... (read full critics)