Chronic City - Brossura

Lethem, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571235662 ISBN 13: 9780571235667

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2009

Riassunto

Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, living off his earnings as a child star. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, and trapped in a vague routine punctuated only by Upper Eastside dinner parties and engagements.

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. Perkus' countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Together Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the Truth - that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought.

Beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, Lethem's new novel is as always, utterly unique.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

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.

L'autore:

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, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.

He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571235662
• ISBN 13: 9780571235667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512