Chronic City (Paperback)
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Short Description for Chronic City Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana and a desperate ache for meaning.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 24 December 2009
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780571235667 ISBN 10: 0571235662
- Sales rank: 189,265
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Full description for Chronic City
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 fiancee, 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.
