by Jonathan Lethem · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571235674
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«Chronic City» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jonathan Lethem, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (560 pages, in English).
Chase Insteadman, a former child star, lives among dinners and engagements on the Upper East Side while his astronaut fiancée, trapped on the International Space Station, writes him love letters. Perkus Tooth, a conspiratorial pop critic, drags Chase Insteadman to seek the truth in a Manhattan where everything can be bought.
Originally published in 2009, this Faber & Faber edition came out on 6 January 2011.
For readers of contemporary and literary fiction interested in social satire, conspiracies and the portrait of New York.
Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
