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Chronic City eBook

A Novel

by Jonathan Lethem
language: english
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October of 2009 ‧
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A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.

A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude
 
Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan.  Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price. 

"Full of dark humor and dazzling writing" --Entertainment Weekly  

Chronic City

A Novel

by Jonathan Lethem

Property Description
ISBN: 9780385532150
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: October of 2009
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9780385532150
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem é um dos mais importantes escritores norte-americanos contemporâneos. A sua primeira obra, Gun With Occasional Music revelava já um autor empenhado em subverter e fundir diferentes géneros literários. Em 1999, com Órfãos de Brooklyn, homenageava o universo policial. A obra foi galardoada com o National Book Critics Circle Award e o Gold Dagger, sendo ainda incluída em várias listas de melhores livros do ano. Em 2003, com The Fortress of Solitude, conseguiu o seu primeiro bestseller do New York Times. Em 2005, foi premiado com a MacArthur Fellowship, também conhecida como "a bolsa dos génios". Nascido em Brooklyn, onde passou grande parte da infância e juventude, nunca acabou os estudos superiores, tornando-se um leitor compulsivo. Durante anos trabalhou em livrarias, até vender para cinema os direitos do seu primeiro romance. Desde então, dedica-se unicamente à escrita.

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