Motherless Brooklyn
- ISBN-10
- 0385491646
- ISBN-13
- 9780385491648
- Series
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Category
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Pages
- 311
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Jonathan Lethem
Description
A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
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