Motherless ​Brooklyn 3 csillagozás

Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn

From one of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives 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 mobster Frank Minna's limo-service-cum-detective-agency. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel – who struggles even with basic conversation – now attempts to untangle the threads of the case.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1999

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Faber and Faber, London, 2004
320 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780571226320 · ASIN: 0571226329
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Doubleday, New York, 1999
312 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 0385491832

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Reality needs a prick here and there, the carpet needs a flaw. My words begin plucking at threads nervously, seeking purchase, a weak point, a vulnerable ear. That's when it comes, the urge to shout in the church, the nursery, the crowded movie house. It's an itch at first. Inconsequential. But that itch is soon a torrent behind a straining dam. Noah's flood. That itch is my whole life. Here it comes now. Cover your ears. Build an ark.
”Eat me!" I scream.

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”We're not carrying," said Coney.
”'What?" said Minna.
”A piece, I don't have a piece."
”What's with piece? Say gun, Gilbert."
”No gun, Frank."
”That's what I count on. That's how I sleep at night, you have to know. You with no gun. I woundn't want you chuckleheads coming up a stairway behind me with a hairpin, with a harmonica, let alone a gun. I've got a gun. You just show up.
”Sorry, Frank."
”With an unlit cigar, with a fucking Buffalo chickenwing."
”Sorry, Frank."

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