New York:: Doubleday,, (2003.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in near fine dust jacket (hint of cocking to spine.). First printing. Selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, which described it thus: 'This magnificent, ungainly, genre-cracking new novel by the author of "Motherless Brooklyn" is about all kinds of things -- about the past 40 years in America, about popular culture as a salve for the unpopular -- but maybe most of all, it's about how whites and blacks misunderstand each other. In exploring this, through the relationship of two teenage boys in a mixed Brooklyn neighborhood, Lethem winds up confronting race in America with a specificity most white novelists since Mark Twain have been too chicken to try.' SIGNED on the title page. 511 pp.

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Jonathan Lethem is the author of five novels, including Motherless Brooklyn , which won the National Book Critics Award. He is also the author of the story collection The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye and the novella This Shape We're In . His writings have appeared in The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , Harper’s , The Paris Review , McSweeney's , and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45208
Title: THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.
Author: Lethem, Jonathan
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very good in near fine dust jacket (hint of cocking to spine.)
Jacket Condition: near fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385500696
ISBN 13: 9780385500692
Publisher: Doubleday,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2003.)
Keywords: brooklyn setting
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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