Jonathan Lethem very rarely disappoints and TB is pleased to report that his most recent novel,' Chronic City,' published this month, continues in a similarly propitious vein. This is undoubtedly Lethem's most ambitious novel to date - finding him lost and losing it in the seemingly unchartered territory of Manhattan, a million miles away from the melancholia, angst and harsher reality of mother Brooklyn. Lethem has created a uniquely subtle satire in this work - where images and ideas are there to be smashed; he smashes them. But his vitriol is very much contained - in this book redemption and salvation are only a page turn away. The book is available now from the usual sources...
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