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JONATHAN LETHEM is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications.
Philip Marlowe would blush. And tip his fedora. * Newsweek * Utterly original and deeply moving * Esquire * The Fortress of Solitude: One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling. * Time * In The Fortress of Solitude (Lethem's) love of Brooklyn suffuses every paragraph; his understanding of the dynamics of inner-city life is equally sharp whether he is describing a game of handball, a routine mugging or a shoplifting jaunt. Rarely has the anxious adventure of childhood been evoked better. * Guardian *
