num_pages: 511
description: "This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic-book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives." "This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption."--BOOK JACKET.
language: English
title: The Fortress Of Solitude
titlecomplete: The Fortress Of Solitude
characters: Robert Woolfolk, Mingus Rude, Dylan Ebdus, Barrett Rude Jr., Arthur Lomb
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 23555
places: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage Books