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Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City

11/10/2009 7:00 pm

The acclaimed author ofMotherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roarwith this gorgeous, stunning portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their owndelusions, desires and lies. In Chronic City, Chase Insteadman, ahandsome, in offensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residualsearned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &Pesty." His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped bya layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which shesends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase isadrift. Into Chase's cloistered city enters pop critic Perkus Tooth, who drawsChase into another Manhattan, questioning what is real. Like Manhattan itslef,Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastatingand antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.

Chronic City (Hardcover)

$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780385518635
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Doubleday, 10/2009

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