{"product_id":"9780571219353","title":"The Fortress of Solitude","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jonathan Lethem\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 January 2005 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 528 pages\u003cbr\u003e195 x 132 x 34mm | 412g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Lethem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57390557233477,"sku":"9780571219353","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780571219353.jpg?v=1773512044","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780571219353","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}