Description: "Lethem has done a number of things here, any one of which is impossible for any but the very finest novelists. He has vividly and lovingly and truthfully, through thrilling evocation of its music, its popular culture, its street games, argot, pharmacology, social mores and racial politics, recreated a world, a moment in history that I would have thought lost and irrecoverable. He has created, in young Dylan, a genuine literary hero. He has reinvented and reinvigorated the myths of the superhero, of black-white relations, of New York City itself. But most of all, from my point of view, he captures preciselyas only a great novelist canhow it feels to love the world that is, on a daily basis, kicking your ass." --Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayandWonder Boys "THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE is luminous, stinging with truth and life. A story of two boys, a Brooklyn story, an American story that gives in its very specificity the force of the universal." --Paula Fox, author ofDesperate CharactersandBorrowed Finery "Wondrous and sweeping, this story evokes perfectly the nuances of friendship and the often odd arrangement called family. The drum of loss beats poignantly beneath the surface, as this tale moves from the streets of Brooklyn to the West Coast and back, presenting us the with baffling and tender gift of acceptance." --Elizabeth Strout, author ofAmy and Isabelle "The Fortress of Solitude is a grim, brave, soaring American masterpiece." --Richard Russo

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