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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
August 24, 2004
Pages
509
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375724886
ISBN-10
0375724885
Dimensions
1 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Original list price
$15.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic-book heroes. By the author of Motherless Brooklyn. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE.
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory.
"A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine
"One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory.
"A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine
"One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (December 1, 2003)
9780786259960 | details & prices | 824 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.20 lbs | List price $31.95
About: A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Author The award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn spins a tale of two friends from a Brooklyn neighborhood, a black boy and a white boy, and their adventures in late-twentieth-century America.
About: A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Author The award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn spins a tale of two friends from a Brooklyn neighborhood, a black boy and a white boy, and their adventures in late-twentieth-century America.
from Doubleday (September 1, 2003)
9780385500692 | details & prices | 511 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (August 24, 2004)
9780375724886 | details & prices | 509 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic-book heroes.
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic-book heroes.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With David Aaron Baker (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (August 24, 2004)
9780739315835 | details & prices | List price $29.95
With David Aaron Baker (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (September 1, 2003)
9780739306468 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.25 × 2.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mungus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.
About: Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mungus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.
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