The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel

The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."

This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisionsâ€”what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch moneyâ€”are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore.

This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist.

This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives.

This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption.

This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2003-09-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385500692

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2003-09-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385500692

The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel

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