![]() ![]() Himself trapped between his twin peripheral celebrities, Chase falls in with Perkus Tooth, a hyper-literate nuisance-critic of the Lester Bangs variety (though Perkus Tooth denies the type). His fiancée is Janice Trumbull, an astronaut trapped in a decaying satellite, which is blocked from re-entering our atmosphere by an orbiting bank of Chinese space-mines. He is a former child star, lately better-known as the male half of the universe’s longest-distance relationship. It’s the story of Chase Insteadman, a minor Upper East Side celebrity. And if it does need overstuffing just to fit all that it does, it demonstrates well that in the novel, lives live well alongside others. As often as it feels like it’s a present-day story, Chronic City seems to me as though it lives down somewhere deeper in the past. Fair enough: It’s at different times to different strengths concerned by technology, space, local government, war there is then a fear of the false, a fear of the real, the fear of all components of the simulacra, basically, and then above all, of the city. ![]() Jonathan Lethem’s new book, Chronic City, is so damn big it’s overstuffed or that’s what Michiko Kakutani says. ![]()
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