Motherless Brooklyn
by Lethem, Jonathan
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0385491832
- ISBN 13
- 9780385491839
- Seller
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Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Doubleday: New York, 1999. As New Book in As New Dust Jacket in protective mylar. First Edition stated with full number line. Binding is square and tight, text is clean and unmarked, not price clipped. Fifth novel and winner of the National Book Critics Award. Author known for blending detective fiction with elements of sci-fi and autobiography.
Synopsis
Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999. It is a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. Lethem's protagonist has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. In 2005 it was announced that Edward Norton would direct, adapt, and star in a film adaptation, set in the 1950s. The movie will be released in 2010.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Moon (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62
- Title
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385491832
- ISBN 13
- 9780385491839
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999
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About the Seller
Book Moon
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Easthampton, Massachusetts
About Book Moon
Located in the bookstore-rich community of Western Massachusetts, Book Moon is a brand new independent bookshop selling new and used books and collectible first editions. Book Moon is run by Kelly Link & Gavin J. (of Small Beer Press). They welcome dogs large and small, and offer mysterious book bundles wrapped in brown paper and tied up with string.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
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- Number Line
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- New
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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