Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Download Chronic City PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Chronic City book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Fiction categories.
Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, living off his earnings as a child star. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, and trapped in a vague routine punctuated only by Upper Eastside dinner parties and engagements. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus' countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Together Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the Truth - that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought. Beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, Lethem's new novel is as always, utterly unique.
Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lethem Jonathan
language : it
Publisher: Il Saggiatore
Release Date : 2010-07-14
Chronic City written by Lethem Jonathan and has been published by Il Saggiatore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-14 with Fiction categories.
Chase Insteadman è l'ex bambino prodigio di un vecchio telefilm. Tira avanti sfruttando ciò che resta della fama passata e il rinato interesse dei media per la sua relazione con Janice Trumbull, un'astronauta bloccata nello spazio, dalla quale riceve e-mail d'amore. A Chase si affianca Perkus Tooth, un ex critico musicale disoccupato con la passione per i cheeseburger, le cospirazioni e l'arte. Perkus aiuterà l'amico durante un percorso di formazione che lo condurrà a rivedere la sua ingenua interpretazione della realtà, andando oltre l'apparenza. Lo scenario è l'autoreferenziale isola di Manhattan, lacerata fra la decadenza culturale odierna e un glorioso passato intellettuale, terrorizzata da una gigantesca tigre che semina distruzione per le strade abitate da gente ricca, ossessionata dalla fama e da lettori del New York Times che preferiscono leggere la rivista in una versione war-free scaricabile da internet, che non tiene conto dell'11 settembre. "Chronic City" è un vivido ritratto di Manhattan e delle sue paranoie, raccontate attraverso gli occhi di un outsider, con lo humor e la straordinaria immaginazione di Jonathan Lethem.
Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
Acteur retraité, Chase Insteadman vit de ses royalties et d'apparitions mondaines à Manhattan. Il rencontre Perkus Tooth, un ancien critique qui l'entraîne dans ses délires excentriques. Entre absurdité et érudition, les deux amis tentent d'expliquer d'étranges incidents: un tigre rôde dans l'East Side, une odeur de chocolat plane sur la ville et un brouillard permanent efface les gratte-ciel.
Lucky Alan
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Lucky Alan written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Fiction categories.
The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form. Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in “Pending Vegan”; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in “Traveler Home”; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in “Procedure in Plain Air”; and a crumbling, haunted “blog” on a seaside cliff in “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear.” Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting. As in his celebrated novels, Lethem finds the uncanny lurking in the mundane, the irrational self-defeat seeping through our upstanding pursuits, and the tragic undertow of the absurd world(s) in which we live. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in “The King of Sentences”; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in “The Porn Critic”; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in “Their Back Pages.” As always in Lethem, humor and poignancy work in harmony, humans strive desperately for connection, words find themselves misaligned to deeds, and the sentences are glorious.
Dissident Gardens
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-01-16
Dissident Gardens written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn’t the first time, and it wasn’t the last. In fact, Rose – like all American Communists – got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesn’t take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorising the neighbourhood, and her family, with the implacability of her beliefs, the sheer force of her grudge. And the generations that follow Rose will not easily escape her influence, her ire, her radicalism. Foremost among these is Miriam, Rose's charismatic and passionate want-away hippie daughter, who heads for the Greenwich Village of the Sixties; her black stepson Cicero, an angry debunking machine; and her bewildered grandson Sergius, who finds himself an orphan in the capitalist now. A radical family epic, and an alternative view of the American twentieth century, Dissident Gardens is the story of a group of individuals who fought and lost, but might one day win. It is a blast of pure style and literary dazzle from one of the great and most innovative writers of the age.
Chronic City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : fr
Publisher: Editions de l'Olivier
Release Date : 2011
Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Editions de l'Olivier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Chase Insteadman est un acteur new-yorkais vivant sur les quelques royalties de sa gloire passée. Il erre de fête en fête dans un Manhattan peuplé de célébrités et rencontre Perkus Tooth, ancien critique underground, doté d'un talent certain pour la digression. Insteadman se prend au jeu de Perkus. Il se laisse porter par ses monologues sur la vie, la mort, Marion Brando, la littérature ou la théorie du complot. Les deux hommes perdent petit à petit le fil de la réalité, au point que New York semble tomber dans l'inquiétante étrangeté : un mystérieux tigre rôde dans l'East Side, une odeur de chocolat plane sur la ville et un brouillard permanent efface les gratte-ciels. Dans Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem dépeint un New York fantasmé, reflet déformé de notre époque, nourri par le rock, la pop culture et la science-fiction. Ce livre foisonnant et déjanté place Lethem au rang des grands écrivains américains d'aujourd'hui.
Unfinished Business
DOWNLOAD
Author : Vivian Gornick
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Unfinished Business written by Vivian Gornick and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading—and re-reading—as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colette’s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen’s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has often made me love life more.” After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing’s Particularly Cats. Guided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”
The Blot
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-02-02
The Blot written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-02 with Fiction categories.
**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year** Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. Maybe it had something to do with the Blot – a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno’s vision. It’s not showing any signs of going away. As Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There’s a surgeon who can help, but surgery is going to involve a lot of money, and worse: returning home to the garish, hash-smoke streets of Berkeley, California. Here, the unseemly Keith Stolarsky – a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars and thrift stores – is king. And he’s willing to help Bruno out. But there was always going to be a price.
The Fortress Of Solitude
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Lethem
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-08-14
The Fortress Of Solitude written by Jonathan Lethem and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Fiction categories.
From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple.This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore.This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.