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Home / Arts / Literature / Authors / L / Lethem, Jonathan / Novels / Motherless Brooklyn
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- 'Motherless Brooklyn' Wins Book Critics Circle Prize - New York Times. Includes brief plot outline and list of winners in other categories. [Site requires free registration.]
www.nytimes.com/library/books/031400book-price.html
- Amazon.com - Editorial Reviews: Motherless Brooklyn.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-reviews/0385491832
- Amazon.com - Customer Reviews: Motherless Brooklyn
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-customer-reviews/0385491832
- Amazon.com: A Glance: Motherless Brooklyn - Book excerpt.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-excerpt/0385491832
- An Investigation of Confabulation - USA Today review by Ann Prichard.
www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/book384.htm
- bn.com - Motherless Brooklyn - Synopsis, editor/reader reviews, and ordering information.
search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0385491832
- Bold Type: Motherless Brooklyn - Short plot synopsis of this 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (and soon-to-be feature film starring Edward Norton).
www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem
- Booklist - synopsis by Frank Caso.
www.ala.org/booklist/v95/adult/jul/02lethem.html
- Books: Madman, P.I. - Tucson Weekly. Review focusing on the protagonist's linguistic tics as an amplification of the freakshow that lies beneath the surface of our normal world.
weeklywire.com/ww/10-11-99/tw_book.html
- City Pages: The Tower of Babble - "By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language."
www.citypages.com/databank/20/982/article8012.asp
- Excerpt by Jonathan Lethem - Bold Type's print excerpt from the novel.
www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/excerpt.html
- Reading by Jonathan Lethem - Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel.
www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/reading.html
- Review | Motherless Brooklyn - Frederick Zackel's review for January magazine.
www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/motherless.html
- Salon Books | by Gary Krist - "An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome."
www.salon.com/books/review/1999/09/23/lethem
- Salon Health & Body | I Can't Help It! - Lethem joins in on an article re: Tourette's syndrome (the disorder attributed to his "Motherless Brooklyn" main character and narrator, Lionel Essrog).
www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/21/tourettes/index1.html
- The Village Voice - Sleuth Sayer by Luc Sante.
www.villagevoice.com/vls/163/sante.shtml
- Washingtonpost.com: Postmodern P.I. - Review by Adam Mazmanian
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/feed/a33165-1999nov7.htm
- What Makes Him Tic? - New York Times review by Albert Mobilio.
www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/reviews/991017.17mobilot.html
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