num_pages: 4
description: From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside-down, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case, while trying to keep the words straight in his head. A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.Performed by Steve Buscemi
language: English
title: Motherless Brooklyn
titlecomplete: Motherless Brooklyn
characters: Laura Rose, Lionel Essrog, Frank Minna, Moses Randolph, Tony Vermonte
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery Thriller, New York, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 40340
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: The Macallan Gold Dagger
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperAudio