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Motherless Brooklyn
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Published:
[United States] : HarperAudio, 2014.
Content Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 09 min.)) : digital.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Description

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. 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. A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.

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eAudiobook
Edition:
Unabridged.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062329219, 0062329219
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.1, 15 Points

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Read by Geoffrey Cantor.
Description
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. 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. A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Lethem, J., & Cantor, G. (2014). Motherless Brooklyn. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Lethem, Jonathan and Geoffrey, Cantor. 2014. Motherless Brooklyn. [United States], HarperAudio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Lethem, Jonathan and Geoffrey, Cantor, Motherless Brooklyn. [United States], HarperAudio, 2014.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Lethem, Jonathan, and Geoffrey Cantor. Motherless Brooklyn. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio, 2014.

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