MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
by Lethem, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999. It is a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. Lethem's protagonist has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. In 2005 it was announced that Edward Norton would direct, adapt, and star in a film adaptation, set in the 1950s. The movie will be released in 2010.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1750
- Title
- MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2014
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary First Editions; Autographs and Signed Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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