New York Times Book Review, der havde Chronic City på en andenplads på sin liste over årets 10 bedste bøger.
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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.
Exchanging love letters with a fiancâee who is trapped on the Space Station, Chase Insteadman apathetically attends social engagements before pop critic Perkus Tooth introduces him to a side of Manhattan that causes Chase to question ...
Chronic city
Chronic City
Roman de société
Un árbol de marihuana ancestral y poderoso llamado Chronic, una espesa niebla gris que cubre Manhattan y un tigre mecánico que tiene aterrorizados a los habitantes de Nueva York son otros de los personajes de la nueva novela de Jonathan ...
"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.
Exchanging love letters with a fiancee who is trapped on the Space Station, Chase Insteadman apathetically attends social engagements before pop critic Perkus Tooth introduces him to a side of Manhattan that causes Chase to question ...
Like Manhattan itself, 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.