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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

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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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Along with The Bronx is Burning which alternates the stories of The New York Yankees and the hunt for The Son of Sam it captured New York in the late 70's perfectly.

I finally finished this thing. It's pretty good, but the first half is so much better than the second half. There is some real magic amidst the nostalgia in Lethem's story of growing up in Brooklyn in the '70s. But the whole beginning seems like it's leading up to some great climax, and that climax never comes. As the main character grows up (an exaggeration for the emotionally underdeveloped thirtysomething he is by the end), he becomes a wanky, self-absorbed snob-rock geek, which may have been

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)Soon after opening CCLaP in the summer of 2007, one of the first books I had a chance to review was what at the time was Jonathan Lethem's latest, You Don't Love Me Yet; and as long-time readers remember, I found that book to be a nearly unreadable pile of horsesh-t, so bad in fact that it served as

Lethem seems, as Jonathan Franzen reportedly was while writing The Corrections, to have been trying to write The Great American Novel when he wrote this book. The result was a pretty jumbled, sprawling, and overreaching attempt to shoehorn race, gentrification, obscure pop cultural obsessions, and magic realism (via superhero comic book characters and allusions) into a novel. The settings and descriptions often felt very research-derived, as if Lethem boldly ignored the whole "write what you

Storytelling has changed. It used to be that stories unfolded slowly, sometimes even lethargically, until rising to the climactic finish. Think about the classics you likemost likely: slow start, strong finish. These days, stories begin at a rapid pace, but seem to lose momentum by the end. When I think about recent popular titles, even ones Ive thoroughly enjoyed, this disappointment is usually present. Maybe its the immediacy of the modern-day culture, but its rare to find an ending up to the

Now that I've read this book, I share Lethem's amazement that James Wood reviewed it without mentioning the magic ring. Though the ring vanishes for long stretches of time, it is pivotal at several junctures, especially during the final scene between protagonist Dylan Ebdus, whose story of growing up white in non-white Brooklyn during the '70s this is, and his best friend, Mingus Rude, son of a famous soul singer, tagger, and, eventually, claimed by crack and consigned to the prison system. This

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