The Fortress of Solitude

Name: The Fortress of Solitude
Author: Jonathan Lethem

by Jonathan Lethem

Childhood friendship and superhero mythology shape two men's lives across Brooklyn decades

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Jonathan Lethem

American novelist whose work blends literary fiction with genre influences, Brooklyn nostalgia, and pop-cultural obsession. Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is one of the most energetically imaginative novelists of his generation.

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