Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude winter and utterly claustrophobic’ Heather Darwent

and utterly claustrophobic’ Heather Darwent

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This edition also features a foreword by Patricia Walden

under the guise of adventurers

Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude winter and utterly claustrophobic’ Heather DarwentMotherless Brooklyn is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Brooklyn's self appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three other veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world