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The Fortress of Solitude
The Fortress of Solitude
Author: Jonathan Lethem
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 unraveli...  more »
ISBN: 441637
Publication Date: 10/2003
Pages: 511
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Paperback
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 Yoni avatar reviewed The Fortress of Solitude on + 327 more book reviews
I absolutely LOVE Lethem, and this might be my favorite. So much packed into this complex novel. Not the happiest of stories, but then happy is not my type of book! If you like Lethem then by all means, read this book. If you don't know Lethem, by all means, read this book. Get to know him.


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