The Fortress of Solitude
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonathan Lethem.
Edition: printing (2)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780571219339
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Male friendship -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.

This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.

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.
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Notes: UK