I just finished his latest, "Fortress of Solitude," which has
a murder, racial tension, drug dealing and even a prison
break of sorts, but really isn't a crime novel. It's about a
young white man who grows up in a racially mixed Brooklyn
neighborhood where gentrification was attempted but never
quite came off. Brilliant. Funny. Sad. Profound. Lethem
manages to mix in music, comic book collecting, mother love
and hate, the art world, the difficulty of son-father
relationships and, to bring this closer to this list's
current topic -- the dark side of science fiction
conventions.
Dick Lochte
Bill asked:
>Has anyone else been reading Lethem recently? Looking
through
the
>archives I see we talked about him on and off in 1999
and 2000,
because of
>MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, but not a lot since
then.
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