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...here's a really horrendous idea for a novel! Two boys growing up together on a bad block in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1970s--one's white and introverted, and one's black and cool. The white kid's name is Dylan, and the black kid is called Mingus. And they can fly. Want me to go on? Not really? But listen: if you skip out now, you'll miss one of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year...
...smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan the follower--and Lethem spends much of the novel carefully mapping...
Like the men, the women were not overly concerned with team scores but used the meet as a building block for the season...
Geoghan was strangled and beaten to death in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison in Worcester, Mass. last month. His alleged killer was Joseph Druce, an inmate with a history of violent outbursts. The two were in the same cell block despite the facts that Geoghan’s crimes were well known among the inmate population and Druce was serving a life term for the similarly brutal 1988 murder of a man he believed to be homosexual...
...block this move, EPA staffers deleted the global warming section from its report...