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Title	:	The Fortress of Solitude
Author	:	Jonathan Lethem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2005 by Faber and Faber (first published September 16th 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. New York. Literature. Literary Fiction. American

The Fortress of Solitude

Jonathan Lethem

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 20256 Users | 1460 Reviews

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From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.

This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.

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.

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Original Title:	The Fortress of Solitude
ISBN:	0571219357 (ISBN13: 9780571219353)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dylan Ebdus, Mingus Rude
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2005)

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OH MY GOD PRAISE BE TO JESUS I FINALLY FINISHED IT BLAAARGHOh, and also: thoroughly okay. I could have done without the postmodern flourishesthe fantastical superhero elements of the narrative were sort of handled unwield-ily, as in, they werent fantastical enough to really persuade me that yesssssssss! This man can fucking FLY! What else, what else? I dont know. Lethems special irritating self-aware post-ironic, hipper-and-more-well-read-than-thou attitude can be read allllll over this book (it

I finished this book and I think I enjoyed it. I didn't love it, but it was an interesting read. Still, something felt missing, and I have orbited around this review for several days, unsure of what I wanted to say or how. Then, unfortunately for Jonathan Lethem, I started reading Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and with one sentence, she sort of demolished this whole genre. This isn't to say that I suddenly didn't enjoy the book, but the distance I was feeling from it crystallized.Note:

I read this a couple years ago, and the main thing I remember about it is that the first half is incredible, while much of the second half is retarded. Maybe now that I myself am older and lamer like the character gets in the book, I'd be able to relate better, and it wouldn't bother me so much.... Anyway, I liked this book a lot. The majority of it's amazing, enough so to make up for the crummy bits, which probably aren't actually that crummy, but only seemed so by comparison.You have to get up

In brief: No. This book doesn't do it. At all. At any time. I grudgingly give Lethem credit for trying to write the "Great American Novel," but it comes off short and ends up being overtly pretentious. And I can't believe they still wheel this guy out at every literary event happening within 50 miles of Brooklyn. Stop! Please, stop!

A fantastic coming-of-age tale set in mid-to-late 1970s Brooklyn. Two motherless boys grow up next door to one another: Mingus Rude, son of an R&B singer, and Dylan Ebdus, son of a University Professor, grow up together on their block following first their passion for comic books (the title is drawn from the name of Superman's secret base in the Arctic) and later their love of graffiti and hip-hop. First and foremost a tale of friendship's makings and falling apart, Lethem also adds a

beautiful and dense with poetry, the fortress of solitude grapples with race, segregation, gentrification, poverty, the loss of the american dream, and disillusionment in a deep, interesting, at times playful and magical, fun and a thought-provoking way.though at times i felt like i was immersed, up to my ears, in a testosterone world (where there are almost zero important female characters whose presence plays a strong role in the book, and the most significant female character is significant

Video-review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9Gf...An epic tale of gentrification and crushed hopes, The Fortress of Solitude is one of the densest books I've ever read, each page packed with lives and dreams and misery. It's depressing as fuck and crazy on so many levels, but for the sheer glow of its ambitiousness, it's a pleasure to read for anyone who's passionate about American literature and culture.