The Fortress Of Solitude Av Jonathan Lethem

<p>From the prize-winning author of <b>Motherless Brooklyn</b>, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.<br><br>This 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.<br><br>This 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.<br><br>This 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.</p>