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Isabel vendles arbitrary conjuration of boerum hill from within the gowanus neighborhood in brooklyn, new york, despite the absence of any natural elevation, using nothing more than lines drawn on a map. It follows two teenage friends, dylan ebdus and mingus rude, one white and one black, who discover a magic ring. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the deep south, faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power as epic as the old testament, as american as huckleberry finn. Read a gamblers anatomy a novel by jonathan lethem available from rakuten kobo. Fortress of solitude is the story of the friendship of two boys growing up in gowanus, brooklyn, a neighborhood real estate agents would describe as transitional.
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