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The Fortress of Solitude audiobook
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrator: David Aaron Baker
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2003
- Language: English
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The Fortress of Solitude Audiobook Summary
This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as “gentrification.”
This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human 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 the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore.
This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist.
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.
This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn’t accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption.
This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.
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The Fortress of Solitude Full Details
| Narrator | David Aaron Baker |
| Length | 18 hours 33 minutes |
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780739306475 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Fortress of Solitude is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: jonathan lethem, gifts for grandparents, solitude, history lovers gifts, michael chabon, contemporary, surfing, book club, young adult, guns, humor, realistic fiction, ya, 1980s, literary, gangs, addiction, death, 20th century, poverty, grief, americana, immigration, relationships, family life, historical fiction, 1960s, funny, romance, drama, hollywood, manhattan, women, autism, murder, latina, high school, skateboarding, immigrants, psychological, nihilism, race, satire, modern, math, 1990s, movie, contemporary lit, school, upstate new york, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction, Urban The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the The Fortress of Solitude is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780739306475.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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