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Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel

door Jonathan Lethem

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML: 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 over 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 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.… (meer)

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What was it like to grow up on the mean streets of Brooklyn in the 70's? This work of autofiction by Jonathan Lethem is an appealing and nostalgic look backward to that time and place. If the novel has any structure to speak of, it tends to follow a group of kids from their pre-teen years when racial differences were not apparent into their pre-teen times, characterized by "the dance" and the emergence of racial and sexual awareness. The book finishes with a nostalgic look backward by the characters as adults with special emphasis on the gentrification craze and what was lost by so-called progress.

Lethem's writing is a little like jazz. The narrative tends to jump around a lot but is never far from humor and irony. One is unsure who the narrator is or what to make of the short vignettes other than as ways to provide the reader with a general feel for things. He succeeds at capturing the humanity of his characters, even the hoodlums, but one would have to look elsewhere for the kind of coherent plot evident in other coming-of-age novels set in rough neighborhoods (e.g., Douglas Stuart's Glasgow). (

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ozzer | Oct 28, 2023 |

This book contains some interesting, and sometimes disturbing, vignettes about childhood and the inequities of race, but the narrator's "knowing" voice is both irritating and distancing. Recommended for libraries in Brooklyn only as a historical time piece. (

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librarianarpita | Oct 13, 2023 |

Through a series of interrelated vignettes, this takes the reader back to 1970s Brooklyn and the beginning of its gentrification. Focusing primarily on the young boys from the Dean Street neighborhood, it introduces the mixed cultures and ethnicities, their interconnections and the territories at a time when mostly petty crime was prevalent. It follows some of the characters into more contemporary times, charting their lives as well as the displacement of the displacers in the neighborhood.

I loved the momentous, not so momentous, and infamous history that was interspersed in the story telling, along with the iconic events/objects from the 70s. Coming from the perspective of being a New Yorker at heart and someone who actually remembers the 70s, I do wonder if others might be lost by some of the references and want to “Google” them.

The writing is a bit different from a typical narrative; it might be off putting to some. For those willing to tackle something with an atypical structure, it will be a satisfying read.

Thanks to #netgalley and @eccobooks for the ARC. (

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vkmarco | Aug 31, 2023 |

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:

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 over 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 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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