The Fortress Of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

Jonathon Lethem is an established author and many will know him from his previous novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’(2004), which won Novel of the Year by Esquire and The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award. I however was new to him and I really picked the book purely from the blurb on the back, it sounded like quite a unusual story, which appealed to my reading tastes. The narrative of the novel is split into three distinctive parts covering different times in the characters lives and spanning almost thirty years. It begins in early 70’s New York, in a predominantly poor black area of Brooklyn, which however was beginning to see some of the ...  Read the complete review