The germ of inspiration, that really freeing sense that this was an image of human life that I could inhabit, turn inside out and make my own, was right there in Sacks's essay." "I came across Tourette's the way anyone might," says the 35-year-old Lethem, "by reading about it in Oliver Sacks.
Through Lionel - nickname Freakshow - he explores the relationship between what makes us tic and what makes us tick.
Author Jonathan Lethem - a former painter, student contemporary of Bret Easton Ellis, and writer of four acclaimed novels in the past five years - has created, from what sounds like a ludicrous gimmick, one of fiction's most memorable narrators.
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