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The fortress of solitude

a novel

By Jonathan Lethem

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| Others | 9780385511537

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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)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • 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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  • Great book, interesting historical description of New York between the Seventies and the Eighties, beautiful account of what it meant growing up in a big city in those years (drugs, graffitis...). Loved the superhero parts, as well.

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