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The Fortress of Solitude

By Jonathan Lethem

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2004
ISBN
0375724885, 9780375724886
LCC
PS3562.E8544 F67 2003b
Open Library ID
OL24376321M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2049478 bytes)
Pages
528\326
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude is the first great urban coming of age novel to appear in years.

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