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Das neue Meisterwerk von Jonathan Lethem ist ein Porträt der "Manhattener": schräg, verrückt, tragisch und einfach wunderbar!

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Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem - the critically-acclaimed author of You Don´t Love Me Yet and Fortress of Solitude - is a searing portrayal of Manhattan-ites wrapped up in their own delusions, desires and lies.

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Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive former child-star, living a vague routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan´s Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancée, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift.

Into Chase´s life 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. Together, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the Truth - that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought.

At once beautiful and tawdry, poignant and funny, Lethem´s new novel is as always, utterly unique.

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Lethem, Jonathan

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.

He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.

He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year´s Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.

His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney´s and many other periodicals.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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