by Jonathan Lethem · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439723400
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Chronic City is a novel by American author Jonathan Lethem, published in 2009. The story is set in New York City and follows Chase Insteadman, a former film critic, and Perkus Tooth, an eccentric character who is dedicated to the search for rare and forgotten objects. The novel explores themes such as memory, identity, and the nature of reality in a constantly changing city.
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.
