Weiner has a poetic and philosophical turn of mind,'' Richard Bernstein wrote in a review in The Times, ''and he manages to see the almost spiritual implications of the search for the deepest truths about the nature of life. The book chronicles the career of Seymour Benzer, one of the founders of molecular biology, and his work to find the genes that control aging, mating and memory in fruit flies. The general nonfiction award went to ''Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior'' by Jonathan Weiner. Lethem's novel ''immerses us in the mind's dense thicket, a place where words split and twine in an ever-deepening tangle.'' Essrog works for Frank Minna, a small-time neighborhood owner of a 'seedy and makeshift' detective agency. The story is set in Brooklyn, and follows Lionel Essrog, a detective who has Tourette's, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. Essrog's tics evoke James Joyce and that Mr. Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Albert Mobilio said that Mr. ''Alfred Hitchcock'' becomes ''Altered Houseclock'' and ''friend of the deceased'' is rendered ''mend the retreats.''
Essrog's illness causes him to compulsively tap everything within reach - six slaps of the dashboard or six touches on the shoulder - and makes every conversation a pun-filled call-and-response. The book, by Jonathan Lethem of Brooklyn, follows Lionel Essrog as he tries to solve the murder of his boss and mentor. ''Motherless Brooklyn,'' a novel about a detective whose Tourette's syndrome turns his sentences into rhymed barrages of free association, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction yesterday.
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