Chronic City

Chronic City
ISBN-10
8865760001
ISBN-13
9788865760000
Series
Chronic City
Category
Fiction
Pages
457
Language
Italian
Published
2010-07-14
Publisher
Il Saggiatore
Author
Lethem Jonathan

Description

Chase Insteadman è l'ex bambino prodigio di un vecchio telefilm. Tira avanti sfruttando ciò che resta della fama passata e il rinato interesse dei media per la sua relazione con Janice Trumbull, un'astronauta bloccata nello spazio, dalla quale riceve e-mail d'amore. A Chase si affianca Perkus Tooth, un ex critico musicale disoccupato con la passione per i cheeseburger, le cospirazioni e l'arte. Perkus aiuterà l'amico durante un percorso di formazione che lo condurrà a rivedere la sua ingenua interpretazione della realtà, andando oltre l'apparenza. Lo scenario è l'autoreferenziale isola di Manhattan, lacerata fra la decadenza culturale odierna e un glorioso passato intellettuale, terrorizzata da una gigantesca tigre che semina distruzione per le strade abitate da gente ricca, ossessionata dalla fama e da lettori del New York Times che preferiscono leggere la rivista in una versione war-free scaricabile da internet, che non tiene conto dell'11 settembre. "Chronic City" è un vivido ritratto di Manhattan e delle sue paranoie, raccontate attraverso gli occhi di un outsider, con lo humor e la straordinaria immaginazione di Jonathan Lethem.

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