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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.]
Amazon.com
- Editorial Reviews: Motherless Brooklyn.
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Amazon.com: A Glance: Motherless Brooklyn
- Book excerpt.
An Investigation of Confabulation
- USA Today review by Ann Prichard.
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).
Booklist
- synopsis by Frank Caso.
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.
City Pages: The Tower of Babble
- "By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language."
Excerpt by Jonathan Lethem
- Bold Type's print excerpt from the novel.
Jonathan Lethem on MP3Lit.com
- "Listen to two excerpts from his forthcoming novel Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday). An MP3Lit.com exclusive recording."
Reading by Jonathan Lethem
- Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel.
Review | Motherless Brooklyn
- Frederick Zackel's review for January magazine.
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."
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).
The Village Voice
- Sleuth Sayer by Luc Sante.
Washingtonpost.com: Postmodern P.I.
- Review by Adam Mazmanian
What Makes Him Tic?
- New York Times review by Albert Mobilio.
bn.com - Motherless BrooklynÂ
- Synopsis, editor/reader reviews, and ordering information.
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