โ Scribed by Lethem, Jonathan
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The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. Its a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitudeis the first great urban coming of age novel to appear in years.
A great and breathtaking novel. -- Sleazenation
A work of painfully conceived authorial honesty -- The Scotsman, January 2004
American critics are already hailing this ambitious, luminous, invigorating and exuberant novel as a masterpiece -- Spectator, January 2004
Dazzling at once wildly ambitious and quietly intimate. -- New York Times, September 2003
Funny, sad and highly readable. -- Independent, December 2003
Intelligent and captivating: an outstanding novel. -- Vogue, January 2004
Probably the one American novel this year you absolutely must read. -- Rick Moody, Daily Telegraph
Terrifically entertaining: a fine, rich thoughtful novel from one of our best writers. -- Kirkus Reviews
The stunning new novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude spans thirty years in the lives of its characters, and in the life of a neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Within these pages too are the history of soul music, of graffiti art, of experimental film and rock writing and other possibly even more dubious forms of cultural activity.
The novel has a cast of over a hundred characters, more than fifty speaking parts. These include two set of sons and fathers: Mingus Rude and Barrett Rude Jr., and Dylan and Abraham Ebdus. And those four alone will break your heart.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780375724886
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