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The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude comes back with a roar with this stunning, searing portrayal of Manhattanites covered in their own delusions, needs, and is situated.
Chase Insteadman, a good-looking, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's cultural world, lives off residuals acquired as a child star on the favorite sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current cultural cachet to a continuing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is captured by a level of low-orbit mines on the International Space Train station, that she directs him rapturous and heartbreaking love characters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a obscure boring punctuated by Top East Side meal parties.
Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade pot, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a anxious ache for interpretation. Perkus's countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia pull Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Playground riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus try to unearth the answers to several mysteries that appear to provide that rarest of artifacts by using an island where everything can be purchased: Fact.
Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, damaging and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a location utterly unique.
