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Chronic City


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • New York City,
  • Satire,
  • Friendship Fiction
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  • Manhattan misfits chasing authenticity through surreal city adventures
  • Eccentric friendships fueled by pop culture obsessions and wild theories
  • Satirical takes on fame, media, and New York high society
Publisher Description

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.

A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude.

Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station.

A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town.

Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan.

Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price.

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