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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

ISBN: 9780375724886
Release Date: 01 Aug 2004
Average rating: (read by 34 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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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	mrsricho
	Rated it 9 months ago

Super cool book. A little something different. Really well written.

	kristie13
	Rated it 10 months ago

What it is like to grow up in a 1970's Brooklyn while trying to learn about who you are as a human. Letham is a fabulous story teller and has a style for making you really know his characters.

	Luke1972
	Rated it 10 months ago

I liked it but it is quite an odd book (which is probably why I liked it!). It is almost 2 books in one, first part his childhood growing up in Gowanus, NYC and the second part as a adult. Really good story, had me adsorbed in it.

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