num_pages: 528
description: The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude is the first great urban coming of age novel to appear in years.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Fortress of Solitude
titlecomplete: The Fortress of Solitude
characters: Robert Woolfolk, Barrett Rude Jr., Arthur Lomb, Dylan Ebdus, Mingus Rude
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, New York, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 23555
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage Contemporaries