Chronic City

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Praise for Jonathan Lethem ¦¦Ml».
"[A] wi-iter as clever as they come and as crafty as they get, who skinwalked and shape-
changed from Kurt Vonnegut into Saul Bellow before our starry eyes."
— John Leonard, New York Review of Books
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"[An author] whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations B and place him among his country's foremost novelists." — Salon

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"You don't so much read Lethem; you taste and smell and feel and hear him----As a writer
and a storyteller Lethem has more juice than any of his contemporaries."
— Kansas City Star
"Lethem often equals Roth in vividness, ambition and beauty."
— New Republic
"[Lethem] has the will and the ability to seduce and emotionally engage the reader even as he celebrates the artificiality of narrative conventions Lethem's eye—and ear—for the banalities of the culture-producing classes at their leisure is particularly lethal."
— Jay McInerney, New York Times Book... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Praise for Jonathan Lethem ¦¦Ml».
"[A] wi-iter as clever as they come and as crafty as they get, who skinwalked and shape-
changed from Kurt Vonnegut into Saul Bellow before our starry eyes."
— John Leonard, New York Review of Books
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"[An author] whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations B and place him among his country's foremost novelists." — Salon

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"You don't so much read Lethem; you taste and smell and feel and hear him----As a writer
and a storyteller Lethem has more juice than any of his contemporaries."
— Kansas City Star
"Lethem often equals Roth in vividness, ambition and beauty."
— New Republic
"[Lethem] has the will and the ability to seduce and emotionally engage the reader even as he celebrates the artificiality of narrative conventions Lethem's eye—and ear—for the banalities of the culture-producing classes at their leisure is particularly lethal."
— Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review

and Praise for Chronic City
"One of America's finest novelists explores the disconnections among art, government, space travel and parallel realities, as his characters hunger for elusive meaning All truths and realities are open to interpretation, even negotiation, in this brilliantly rich novel . Lethem's most ambitious work to date." — Kirkus Reviews, starred
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"Pow! Lethem has done it again. When it comes to brainy adventures full of laughter and heart this master has few equals. What a joy from the first page to the last."
— Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook
"Tm reminded of the well-rubbed Kafka line: A book must be the axe to break the frozen sea within us. Lethem's book, with incredible fury, aspires to do little less. It's almost certainly his best novel. It's genuinely great." -David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead and Remote

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped sions, desires, and iies
chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a perennially aired sitcom called Martyr Lt Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet 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, she above the earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.
Into Chase's cloistered city 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's 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. Along with Oona Laszlo, a seductive and self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor. Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth.
Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.
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