Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective.
With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.
| ISBN: | 9780571203161 |
| Publication date: | 6th November 2000 |
| Author: | Jonathan Lethem |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber an imprint of Faber and Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 311 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice.
Motherless Brooklyn features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Motherless Brooklyn was written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Faber & Faber an imprint of Faber and Faber
Motherless Brooklyn has 311 pages