Awarded the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 2000 CWA Gold Dagger Award, it is "utterly original and deeply moving" ( Esquire). In Motherless Brooklyn solving the crime is beside the point… this is a novel about the mysteries of consciousness" ( New York Times). Ultimately Lethem has crafted "a Keatonesque detective who stumbles gracefully upon solutions rather than rooting them out. Motherless Brooklyn is, at once, "a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold Oliver Twist and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush. $400.įirst edition of Lethem's award-winning novel, signed on the title page by him, basis for the 2019 film starring and directed by Edward Norton from his screenplay adaptation, a fine copy. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket.
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