Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude Students & student organisations When a small-time crook is

When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis

the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still alive and well

The city of Shiang stands at the edge of a shattered empire

Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty

and who's that in the mirror

Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude Students & student organisations When a small-time crook isIn honour of the 25th anniversary of Motherless Brooklyn a beautifully published Everyman's Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the most acclaimed novels by one of America's most inventive novelists. Motherless Brooklyn is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Brooklyn's self appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to rip apart our language in startling and original