{"product_id":"motherless-brooklyn-9780375724831","title":"Motherless Brooklyn","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel f\u003cb\u003erom America's most inventive novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN LETHEM is the author of six novels, including the best sellers\u003ci\u003e The Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice for one of the best books of 2003, and \u003ci\u003eMother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named novel of the year by \u003ci\u003eEsquire, McSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a variety of other periodicals and anthologies. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and in Maine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599682048274,"sku":"9780375724831","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00ac0f79-8129-45d5-a151-1ba27206ca87.jpg?v=1732203823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/motherless-brooklyn-9780375724831","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}