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Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

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From Amazon: Brooklyn'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. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for h

  • Private investigators
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • Orphans
  • Fiction
  • Patients
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
  • Tourette syndrome
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1999

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