Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
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Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
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eng
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fiction
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Motherless Brooklyn
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870956709
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by Jonathan Lethem
Summary
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down, 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
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adult
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- Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Fiction
- Tourette syndrome + Patients -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- New York (State) + New York + Brooklyn
- Detective and mystery fiction -- Sound recordings
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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- Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Fiction
- Tourette syndrome + Patients -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- New York (State) + New York + Brooklyn
- Detective and mystery fiction -- Sound recordings
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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