{"product_id":"motherless-brooklyn-jonathan-lethem-9780571226320","title":"Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, \u003ci\u003eMOTHERLESS BROOKLYN\u003c\/i\u003e IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLionel 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). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires 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-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective. With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, \u003cb\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is the author of seven novels including \u003cb\u003eFortress of Solitude\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e, which was named Novel of the Year by \u003cb\u003eEsquire\u003c\/b\u003e and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the \u003cb\u003eSalon\u003c\/b\u003e Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited \u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Book of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmnesia\u003c\/b\u003e, guest-edited \u003cb\u003eThe Year's Best\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMusic Writing 2002\u003c\/b\u003e, and was the founding fiction editor of \u003cb\u003eFence\u003c\/b\u003e magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis  writings have appeared in the \u003cb\u003eNew Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's\u003c\/b\u003e and many other periodicals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65916752953693,"sku":"K010520073","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1052007300001A.jpg?v=1789381289","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/motherless-brooklyn-jonathan-lethem-9780571226320","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}