Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
by Lethem, Jonathan
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0062938827
- ISBN 13
- 9780062938824
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SCARCE SIGNED! ONE OF A KIND COLLECTABLE! FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed, dated, and located directly to the full title page ("10-5-23 Wash DC") just TWO DAYS after its release at his very first stop along the book tour. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. Contact us directly for 10% savings in our "Collector's Club" for our highly valued, loyal, repeat buyers!
Named a Most Anticipated Book by: New York Times * Boston Globe * CrimeReads
From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing more than fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood.
"A blistering book. A love story. Social commentary. History. Protest novel. And mystery joins the whole together: is the crime 'time'? Or the almighty dollar? I got a great laugh from it too. Every city deserves a book like this." — Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and the laws; those who award this neighborhood its name.
The rules appear obvious at first. But in memory's prism, criminals and victims may seem to trade places. The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony, then make war with one another. A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering facade. None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget.
Written with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit, Brooklyn Crime Novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a writer at the top of his powers. Jonathan Lethem, "one of America's greatest storytellers" (Washington Post), has crafted an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we've made.
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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1050
- Title
- Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0062938827
- ISBN 13
- 9780062938824
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, novel, Fortress Of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, crime, New York
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