Call Me Brooklyn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564788603)

Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels of Felipe Alfau--a hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction.

Author: Eduardo Lago
ISBN-10: 1564788601
ISBN-13: 9781564788603
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2013
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.62w x 1.07d