Chronic City
By
Lethem, Jonathan
| Price: | $27.95 |
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| Categories: | General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780385532150 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Language: | English |
Summary
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
Chronic City
Tim (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Sun Mar 28 2010 01:28
I wanted to like this book. I almost did. I think I'm supposed to be at least ambivalent the narrator, Chase Insteadman. Good: I hated him. I fear his empty solipsism and ineffectual (though extraordinarily utile, I guess) haplessness.
Lethem is altogether too clever and not at all humble...more...
Lydia (Woodbridge, CT)
Thu May 13 2010 08:49
Let me start by saying I am a huge Lethem fan and that in itself may account for some of my disappointment with this book. Or it may make my feelings toward it more generous than they would be if it were by an author unknown to me. This was a huge idea of a book, but with not enough to pro...more...
Colin (Littleton, CO)
Sat Feb 06 2010 22:07
I’d heard there were bad Jonathan Lethem novels out there (namely You Don’t Love Me Yet), but after the entertaining Gun, With Occasional Music and the wonderful The Fortress of Solitude, I’d moved Lethem into that elite category where I’d buy his newest novels in hardcover. Unfortunately, C...more...
Bookmarks Magazine (The United States)
Wed Dec 02 2009 19:04
Given the offbeat touches in his subject matter—one need look no further than the homicidal, bioengineered kangaroo stalking the author's protagonist in his debut novel, Gun, with Occasional Music—Jonathan Lethem is bound to engender both unbridled admiration from existing fans and more than a f...more...
Rachel (Diamond Bar, CA)
Sat Dec 12 2009 16:57
Manhattan's Upper East Side has become it's own isolated world where things are definitely not as they appear. A tiger is rampaging nightly and destroying areas of the city randomly or not. The New York Times may or may not be reporting the actual news. Chase Insteadman, a former child actor living ...more...
Alex (Arlington, MA)
Sun Jan 17 2010 16:28
Magic realism meets reality television. This is a crazy fun book that will tickle anyone who is at all tuned into the sub-cultural currents of the last 40 years. Our protagonist is Chase Insteadman, former child star and fiancee of an astronaut marooned in space. He meets up with gnomish Perkus Toot...more...
Tony (Chadds Ford, PA)
Sun Oct 25 2009 14:09
Lethem, Jonathan. CHRONIC CITY. (2009). ****. This novel by Lethem was a long, slooow read: not because it was boring, but because you couldn’t take the chance of missing anything. It is at first a confusing and complicated story narrated by Chase Insteadman, a resident of the Upper East Sid...more...
Marc (San Francisco, CA)
Thu Oct 29 2009 12:11
It was inevitable, perhaps. Chronic City is the book with which I acknowledge to myself that Jonathan Lethem has joined the ranks of Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Nicholson Baker, Joanna Scott, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and so many others -- which is to say, he has left the vaunted zone...more...
James (Brookline, MA)
Wed Nov 11 2009 15:45
Chase Insteadman. Perkus Tooth. Oona Laszlo. Foster Watt. Richard Abneg. Georgina Hawkmanaji, affectionately referred to as "The Hawkman," even though she is all woman, and then some. Rossmoor & Arjuna Danzig. Russ Grinspoon, formerly of . . . well, I think you get the idea. If these names...more...
Hood (Miami, FL)
Sat Dec 26 2009 13:28
Bound Miami SunPost November 12, 2009
http://miamisunpost.com/themorgue/2009.1...
Manhattan Marijuana-drama
Jonathan Lethem Gets Leafy Keen
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Long before irony came with obligatory air quotes and people started yawning for a living, the...more...
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