{"id":1286,"date":"2001-08-25T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2001-08-25T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2001-08-25T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2001-08-25T09:32:58","slug":"book-review-motherless-brooklyn-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/08\/25\/book-review-motherless-brooklyn-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Motherless Brooklyn by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book review: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571203167\/o\/qid=\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_aps_b_1_1\/026-5256862-6327654\" title=\"Amazon.co.uk\">Motherless Brooklyn<\/a> by Jonathan Lethem.<br \/>\nSimply put, this book is utterly brilliant. On one level, it is a fairly typical Marlowe-esque American crime novel. But there is a deeper side to it than that, a more emotional side. The principal character is an orphan and suffers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourettesyndrome.co.uk\/\">Tourette Syndrome<\/a> &#8211; at first, the Tourettic ticcing appears humourous, and then is portrayed in a much more sensitive way, and becomes an intriguing plot device. As a reader, you begin to have some understanding of what it must be like to be a Tourette sufferer, the way that other people interact with sufferers, their perceptions of them.<br \/>\nAside from those issues, the plot itself is fantastic &#8211; a total page-turner that makes the book very hard to put down, slowly revealed as our protagonist conducts his investigation, and not without one or two twists and surprises along the way.<br \/>\nDedicated readers may recall that I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2001_04_01_yesterblog.html#3209663\" title=\"yesterblog, way back in April\">raved<\/a> about Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s writing before. Well, I&#8217;m definitely on the look out for more of his writing now. He could easily be elevated to most-favoured author status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. Simply put, this book is utterly brilliant. On one level, it is a fairly typical Marlowe-esque American crime novel. But there is a deeper side to it than that, a more emotional side. The principal character is an orphan and suffers from Tourette Syndrome &#8211; at first, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}