The Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
This story is not about “the losers” – although plenty of them have secondary parts, and lots of walk-ons. We know those types. They fade into the background. Likely as well to bitch about how they’d never been given a chance. Losers.
Dylan Ebdus understands life differently. While having had to negotiate the micro-society of his childhood street (and, later, neighborhood) with rather poor results, he’s tattooed with the knowledge that one needs to learn something in order to make a life.
A Brooklyn landscape; a single street in Boerum Hill. That is: long before “fashionable neighborhood” was attached to this slice of low-rise cityscape. The set-up of black-white-brown friendship and its opposite. The aura of the place is enough to keep it full for any reader.
-- Mark Beyer
author of “Max, the blind guy” and three other novels
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
This story is not about “the losers” – although plenty of them have secondary parts, and lots of walk-ons. We know those types. They fade into the background. Likely as well to bitch about how they’d never been given a chance. Losers.
Dylan Ebdus understands life differently. While having had to negotiate the micro-society of his childhood street (and, later, neighborhood) with rather poor results, he’s tattooed with the knowledge that one needs to learn something in order to make a life.
A Brooklyn landscape; a single street in Boerum Hill. That is: long before “fashionable neighborhood” was attached to this slice of low-rise cityscape. The set-up of black-white-brown friendship and its opposite. The aura of the place is enough to keep it full for any reader.
-- Mark Beyer
author of “Max, the blind guy” and three other novels
Read samples on Amazon: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
Google Books: http://rb.gy/r89nk7
Kobo Books: http://rb.gy/cecwhw
Apple Books: http://rb.gy/6t87tl
#Readers #GoodRead #bookworm #goodbooks #booklover #novels #Lethem #FortressOfSolitude
#libraries #literature #googlebooks #kobobooks #applebooks #kindle
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