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"Chronic City” by Jonathan Lethem

“Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet 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, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.”

Taken from author's website.

See also:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Cowles-t.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101302994.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6947237/Chronic-City-by-Jonathan-Lethem-review.html

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-jonathan-lethem18-2009oct18,0,3998925.story

The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at catalog of the library

Lethem, Jonathan

Chronic City / Jonathan Lethem. — London: Faber and Faber, 2010. — 547 p. ; 18 cm.

ISBN 978-0-571-23567-4

I. Title.

PS3562.E8544 C47 2010

R. 97975