Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(1)
4 star
 
(1)
3 star
 
(1)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(0)
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Also in This Series
More Details
Published:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
04/20/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307789129
ASIN:
B004G8P7G4
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection32
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Jonathan Lethem. (2011). Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Jonathan Lethem. 2011. Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Jonathan Lethem. Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
dba08a09-87dd-f0de-c944-73962fe53ff8
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Apr 23, 2014 16:03:05
Date Updated:
Aug 05, 2022 22:18:55
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 14, 2024 03:46:15
Last Metadata Change:
Apr 14, 2024 03:46:15
Last Availability Check:
Apr 14, 2024 03:46:16
Last Availability Change:
Apr 02, 2024 20:29:31
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 16, 2024 03:08:00

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780307789129
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B004G8P7G4
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780307789129
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 0375724834
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Jonathan Lethem
title
Motherless Brooklyn
dateAdded
2011-04-20T14:21:28.767Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=426&titleID=507511
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
          • id: 1893
sortTitle
Motherless Brooklyn A Novel
crossRefId
507511
subtitle
A Novel
id
6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE
starRating
3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: MotherlessBrooklyn_9780307789129_507511
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2733900
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780307789129
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 4/20/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/MotherlessBrooklynANovel9780307789129.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: MotherlessBrooklyn_507511
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B004G8P7G4
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 4/20/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/MotherlessBrooklynANovel9780307789129.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: MotherlessBrooklyn_9780307789129_507511
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780307789129
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 100350
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 4/20/2011
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/MotherlessBrooklynANovel9780307789129.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: crime fiction
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: Great
      • value: brooklyn
      • value: new
      • value: Fiction
      • value: crime
      • value: novels
      • value: classic
      • value: Thrillers
      • value: American
      • value: suspense
      • value: bestsellers
      • value: mystery
      • value: Horror
      • value: collusion
      • value: noir
      • value: Thriller
      • value: gifts
      • value: gift
      • value: police
      • value: kindle
      • value: Books
      • value: literature
      • value: fiction books
      • value: detective novels
      • value: crime novels
      • value: mystery books
      • value: jonathan lethem
      • value: Murder mystery books
      • value: classic books
      • value: mystery novels
      • value: mystery thriller suspense
      • value: fathers day book
      • value: Motherless Brooklyn
      • value: gifts for nerds
      • value: books fiction
      • value: personalized gifts
      • value: best seller books 2023
      • value: motherless brooklyn by jonathan lethem
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Lethem Jonathan
      • name: Jonathan Lethem
imprint
Vintage
publishDate
2011-04-20T00:00:00-04:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Motherless Brooklyn
fullDescription
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist.
"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." The Boston Globe

Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. 
Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
popularity
1445
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/6892b97b-75de-4a0d-9928-68b4f03262fe/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
6892b97b-75de-4a0d-9928-68b4f03262fe
starRating
3.8
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/689/2B9/7B/{6892B97B-75DE-4A0D-9928-68B4F03262FE}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
      • value: Mystery
publishDateText
04/20/2011
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780375724831
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist.
"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." The Boston Globe

Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues...
sortTitle
Motherless Brooklyn A Novel
crossRefId
507511
awards
      • source: The National Book Critics Circle
      • value: National Book Critics Circle Award
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC022100
      • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
      • code: FIC050000
      • description: Fiction / Crime
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem using our eCollection, please visit our support center.