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Motherless Brooklyn

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4 out of 5
Based on 20,166 Ratings and 2,069 Reviews

Book Description
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn... More
Book Information
PublisherVintage Books
BindingPaperback (12 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages300
ISBN-100571203167
ISBN-13978-0571203161
Publication Date/2000
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About Jonathan Lethem (Author) : Jonathan Lethem is a published author and a narrator. Some of the published credits of Jonathan Lethem include The Fortress of Solitude (Unabridged), The Fortress of Solitude.
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