From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startlin
Motherless Brooklyn
โ Scribed by Jonathan Lethem
- Publisher
- Vintage;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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