User:Dvmlny/Motherless Brooklyn
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| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-385-49183-2 (Hardback) ISBN 0-375-72483-4 (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Girl in Landscape |
| Followed by | Fortress of Solitude |
Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999. It is ostensibly a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. Lethem's protagonist has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. The novel is written from the point of view of someone with Tourette syndrome.
In 2005 it was announced that Edward Norton would direct, adapt, and star in a film adaptation, set in the 1950's.
Motherless Brooklyn inspired Deb Talan to write Tell Your Story Walking. This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One), a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. Tell Your Story Walking was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest.
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[edit] Characters
The Minna Men — Four Brooklyn-raised orphans
- Lionel Essrog — Tourette syndrome–suffering narrator
- Tony Vermonte —
- Danny Fantl
- Gilbert Coney
The Minnas
- Frank Minna — A business men diversified across the spectrum of legality, leader of the Minna Men
- Gerard Minna — Frank's older brother and sometime–business partner
- Julia Minna — Frank's wife
The Clients
- Alphonso Matricardi
- Leonardo Rockaforte
- Zeod
- Kimmery
- Lucius Seminole
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