The four grow up to be the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective agency-cum-limo service, and their days and nights revolve around Frank, the prince of Brooklyn, who glides through life on street smarts, attitude, and secret knowledge. Then one dreadful night, Frank is knifed and thrown in a Dumpster, and Lionel must become a real detective.
As Lionel struggles to find Frank's killer -- and with his Tourette's -- he's forced to delve into the complex, shadowy web of relationships, threats, and favors that make up the Brooklyn world he thought he knew so well. No one -- not Frank, not Frank's bitter wife, Julia, not the other Minna Men -- is what they seem. Not even The Human Freakshow.
All the familiar Lethem touches are here -- crackling dialogue, sly humor, dizzying plot twists -- but they're secondary to wonderfully full, tragic, funny characterizations, and a dazzling evocation of place. Indeed Brooklyn, with its charming folkways and language, its unique style of bad-boy swagger and sentimentality, becomes itself a major character.
"Motherless Brooklyn" is a bravado performance: funny, tense, touching, extravagant. This novel's publication signals the coming-of-age of a major American writer.
Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
More Than Words
Very Good |
$1.41
|
|
Orion Tech
Good |
$1.96
|
|
HPB-Movies
Very Good
|
$3.37
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
Very Good
|
$3.37
|
|
HPB Inc.
Very Good
|
$3.65
|
|
Redux Books
Very Good
|
$3.96
|
|
HPB-Emerald
Very Good
|
$4.50
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Good |
$5.03
|
|
Cathy's Half Price Books
Good |
$5.32
|
|
HPB-Ruby
Very Good
|
$5.38
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
Very Good
|
$5.62
|
|
HPB-Diamond
Very Good
|
$6.73
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
Very Good
|
$6.73
|
|
HPB-Emerald
Very Good
|
$7.30
|
|
HPB-Ruby
Very Good
|
$7.30
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
Very Good
|
$7.30
|
|
Basement Seller 101
New
|
$7.31
|
|
Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop
Very Good
|
$10.67
|
|
HPB-Diamond
Very Good
|
$11.23
|
|
HPB Inc.
Very Good
|
$11.23
|
|
HPB-Red
Good
|
$11.23
|
|
Napa Bookmine
Very Good
|
$11.65
|
|
ErgodeBooks
Good |
$12.27
|