The Spectator, January 3rd, 2004
THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by Jonathan Lethem Faber, £12.99, pp. 470, ISBN 0571219330
Brutal but beautiful Brooklyn
There is currently a vogue for the all-encompassing, minutiae-crunching, self-regarding, state-of-the-changed-nation American novel. All too many of these are prone to solidification and gigantism, careless of content and reader-fatigue, and prone too to excesses of all kinds, from intrusive self-belief to distracting writerly style. However, recently, two of these novels have arrived here to great and justified expectation. Both have avoided the pitfalls of the majority of this...
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