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Chronic City

Chronic City

by JonathanLethem (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $5.93

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    Hardcover 2009

    $3.28
Synopsis

Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive former child-star, living a vague routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancee, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. Together, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the Truth - that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought. At once beautiful and tawdry, poignant and funny, Lethem's new novel is as always, utterly unique.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: Export ed
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 0571235670
ISBN 13: 9780571235674
Book Overview: Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem - the critically-acclaimed author of You Don't Love Me Yet and Fortress of Solitude - is a searing portrayal of Manhattan-ites wrapped up in their own delusions, desires and lies.

Author Bio
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and is the author of novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award. He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.