From America\'s most inventive novelist comes this virtuoso riff on the classic detective novel.
A New York Times Notable Book..
Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Lionel\'s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, 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.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel\'s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim\'s widow skips town.
Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.
Vincent\'s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna\'s limo service cum detective agency.
Together with three veterans of the St.
Brooklyn\'s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways.
A compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America\'s most inventive novelist.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
A National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.
When the mobster is fatally stabbed, Lionel\'s world is turned topsy-turvy.
Vincent\'s Home for Boys work for a small-time mobster.
Lionel Essrog, who has Tourette\'s Syndrome, and three other veterans from St.
From America\'s most inventive novelist comes this virtuoso riff on the classic detective novel
