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Motherless Brooklyn

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday TimesLionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives 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 mobster Frank Minna.

But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.

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Product Details
Faber & Faber
0571359310 / 9780571359318
Paperback / softback
813.54
07/11/2019
United Kingdom
English
Thrillers
320 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Film tie-in. Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1999.