Maggiori informazioni sul libro
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). 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, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.
Acquisto del libro
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2000
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Copertina rigida)
Metodi di pagamento
Qui potrebbe esserci la tua recensione.
- Titolo
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Jonathan Lethem
- Editore
- Faber and Faber
- Pubblicato
- 2000
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0571203167
- ISBN13
- 9780571203161
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Thriller, Amore, Omicidi, Letteratura Americana, Giallo classico, Vita, Adattato in un film, New York, America, Polizia, Indagine, Mafia, Brooklyn, Sindrome di Tourette
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1999
- Titolo originale
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Valutazione
- 3,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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). 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, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.