Lethem, Jonathan Chronic City ISBN 13: 9788842816010

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Esemplare in ottime condizioni. Copertina con tracce di polvere e lievi segni di usura agli angoli.

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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: Jonathan Lethem, the home-grown frontrunner of a generation of Brooklyn writers, crosses the bridge to Manhattan in Chronic City, a smart, unsettling, and meticulously hilarious novel of friendship and real estate among the rich and the rent-controlled. Lethem's story centers around two unlikely friends, Chase Insteadman, a genial nonentity who was once a child sitcom star and now is best known as the loyal fiancé of a space-stranded astronaut, and Perkus Tooth, a skinny, moody, underemployed cultural critic. Chase and Perkus are free-floating, dope-dependent bohemians in a borough built on ambition, living on its margins but with surprising access to its centers of power, even to the city's billionaire mayor. Paranoiac Perkus sees urgent plots everywhere--in the font of The New Yorker, in an old VHS copy of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid--but Chronic City, despite the presence of death, politics, and a mysterious, marauding tiger, is itself light on plot. Eschewing dramatic staples like romance and artistic creation for the more meandering passions of friendship and observation, Chronic City thrives instead on the brilliance of Lethem's ear and eye. Every page is a pleasure of pitch-perfect banter and spot-on cultural satire, cut sharply with the melancholic sense that being able to explain your city doesn't make you any more capable of living in it. --Tom Nissley
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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.

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  • PublisherIl Saggiatore
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 8842816019
  • ISBN 13 9788842816010
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages464
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Book Description Condition: MOLTO BUONO. Traduzione di Giovanna Pannofino. 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. cm.15x21, pp.457, Coll. Narrativa,46. Milano, Il Saggiatore cm.15x21, pp.457, brossura con bandelle e copertina figurata. Coll. Narrativa,46. brossura con bandelle e copertina figurata. Seller Inventory # 303711

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