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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Harperaudio
Publication date October 1, 2000
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition Abridged
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780694523641
ISBN-10 069452364X
Dimensions 1 by 3.50 by 5.25 in.
Weight 0.40 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $25.00
Other format details audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside-down, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case, while trying to keep the words straight in his head. A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.

Performed by Steve Buscemi



Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780385491839 Book cover for 9780786226955
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (August 1, 2000)
9780786226955 | details & prices | 492 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $30.95
About: Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer.
from Doubleday (September 1, 1999)
9780385491839 | details & prices | 311 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $23.95
About: Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer
Paperback
Book cover for 9780375724831
 
from Vintage Books (October 1, 2000)
9780375724831 | details & prices | 311 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer.
CD/Spoken Word
With Frank Muller | Unabridged edition from Recorded Books (November 1, 2001)
9781402510564 | details & prices | List price $89.00
About: From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780694523641
 
With Frank Muller | Unabridged edition from Recorded Books (May 1, 2001)
9780788751837 | details & prices | List price $37.95
About: From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.
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Abridged edition from Harperaudio (October 1, 2000)
9780694523641 | details & prices | 3.50 × 5.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer.
Reinforced
With Jonathan Lethem | from Demco Media (July 1, 2001)
9780606218498 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $21.61
About: Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer.

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