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Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem
Chronic City - Thryft
Chronic City - Thryft

Countercultural quest for truth and meaning.

Chronic City could be a fascinating read for those interested in counterculture and existential questioning. The novel explores these themes through the eccentric character of Perkus Tooth and his unlikely friendship with socialite Chase Insteadman. The unique feature of this book is the integration of space exploration with drug-induced paranoia and conspiracy theories. It received mixed reviews for its complex plot, but if you enjoy quirky characters and thought-provoking themes, Chronic City may be worth checking out.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem
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ISBN: 9780571235667
Authors: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 8880 readers)

Description

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & 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 in 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 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.
 

Countercultural quest for truth and meaning.

Chronic City could be a fascinating read for those interested in counterculture and existential questioning. The novel explores these themes through the eccentric character of Perkus Tooth and his unlikely friendship with socialite Chase Insteadman. The unique feature of this book is the integration of space exploration with drug-induced paranoia and conspiracy theories. It received mixed reviews for its complex plot, but if you enjoy quirky characters and thought-provoking themes, Chronic City may be worth checking out.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.