(#141607) CHRONIC CITY: A NOVEL. Jonathan Lethem.

CHRONIC CITY: A NOVEL. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [2009]. Octavo pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Lethem to influential F&SF critic, editor and publisher David G. Hartwell on the title page. "A novel about New York City, using satire and absurdity to imbue it with a sense of autonomous and fantastic life, dystopian but compelling." - Robert Eldridge. "... set in an Alternate World or possibly Virtual Reality version of New York where fabulous beasts and metaphysical pathos (fog permanently enshrouds Wall Street) underline the final point of the tale (which is also, perhaps, the final point of any twenty-first-century exercise in Equipoise): the need to turn reality into a story that works for now. At the heart of the protagonists' quest for a reality-fixing tale to live by, a "chaldron" – an archaic form of the word cauldron – is discovered, which Basilisk-like fastens their attention to the Transcendence it seems to promise, leading them into damnation." - John Clute. A fine copy. (#141607).

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