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Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lionel Essrog is a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome. He ventures through 1950s New York trying to solve his friend's murder. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.
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English
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Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn "One of America's greatest storytellers." ?Washington Post Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The...
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English
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From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted--cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters--quits working... . Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies. Chase lives off residuals earned as a child star, living a life of cloistered ease, until a pop critic with a conspiratorial counter cultural savvy forces him to confront the answer to several mysteries tightly intertwined within the tragic fabric of the city itself.
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Series
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English
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Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
International backgammon hustler Bruno Alexander is down on his luck, perhaps owing to a blot distorting his vision. When a fainting spell lands him in the hospital, slick childhood buddy Keith offers to fly him to Berkeley for lifesaving experimental surgery. Alas, Berkeley has troubling associations for Bruno. Once more, National Book Critics Circle award winner Lethem makes the weird real, normal, and entertaining.