Motherless Brooklyn-Trade by Jonathan Lethem
One of America's hottest young writers - the only novelist named as one of Newsweek's '100 People for the New Century' - presents a genrebending, mind-blowing tale. nbsp; Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). A local tough guy and fixer, Frank Minna, takes up the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limo-service - their days and nights revolving around Frank Minna, the secret prince of Brooklyn. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective, delving into the complex, and favours that make up Frank Minna's Brooklyn.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571197972 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571197973 |
| Title | Motherless Brooklyn-Trade |
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2000-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Crime Writers' Association Macallan Gold Dagger Award 2000, Short-listed for Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction 2000 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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