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The fortress of solitude
a novel
By Lethem, Jonathan
- ISBN
- 978-0-38550-069-2
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2003
Like Don DeLillo's Underworld, this sprawling, ambitious work by Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn) gives a kind of social history of late 20th-century America while remaining grounded in the childhood world of New York stoops. Instead of the 1950s Bronx, however, Lethem starts his story in a few sullen blocks in Brooklyn, following the friendship of two neighbor boys of different races, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, from the urban era of "white flight" in the early 1970s to gentrification. The...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
