The Fortress of Solitude
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Books
Published: 2004 September
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780375724886
Copyright date: 2003
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.
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