Jonathan Lethem
Paperback | Pages: 528 pages Rating: 3.87 | 20256 Users | 1460 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Fortress of Solitude |
| ISBN: | 0571219357 (ISBN13: 9780571219353) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dylan Ebdus, Mingus Rude |
| Setting: | Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2005) |
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From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.
This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.
This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.
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| Title | : | The Fortress of Solitude |
| Author | : | Jonathan Lethem |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | January 6th 2005 by Faber and Faber (first published September 16th 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. New York. Literature. Literary Fiction. American |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 20256 Users | 1460 ReviewsAssess Out Of Books The Fortress of Solitude
The American fixation on superheroes increasingly puzzles me. Particularly since those invented by the adolescents (both actual and fully grown) seem to focus on the parts of the world that need them least. Fortunately, that is only one strand of Jonathan Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude," which is most effective when it focuses on Dylan Ebdus' youth as one of the few remaining white children growing up in Brooklyn (pre-21st century gentrification). There are other strands--the adult Dylan'sI FINALLY FINISHED THIS BOOK WHAT YEAR IS IT
Well, this is the one. If you only read one book this year, read this one. It's devastating, brilliant, all those things the blurbs say it is.
Now that I've read this book, I share Lethem's amazement that James Wood reviewed it without mentioning the magic ring. Though the ring vanishes for long stretches of time, it is pivotal at several junctures, especially during the final scene between protagonist Dylan Ebdus, whose story of growing up white in non-white Brooklyn during the '70s this is, and his best friend, Mingus Rude, son of a famous soul singer, tagger, and, eventually, claimed by crack and consigned to the prison system. This
In brief: No. This book doesn't do it. At all. At any time. I grudgingly give Lethem credit for trying to write the "Great American Novel," but it comes off short and ends up being overtly pretentious. And I can't believe they still wheel this guy out at every literary event happening within 50 miles of Brooklyn. Stop! Please, stop!
Second Lethem. Last Lethem.
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