NP: "Chronic City"

[Kevin Dunn]

Anyone here a Lethem fan? I got my hands on an advance copy of his new  
novel "Chronic City," and, though I'm not that far into it, I can say  
it's already turning out to be his best. I has the most meaning for  
those living in, or this who haves lived, in Manhattan, as the novels  
uses that local as part if it's conceit.

  "We faced one another, mid-Wednesday Manhattan throngs islanding us  
in their stream." (pg. 5)

"To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds  
squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms  
interleave, like those lines of television cable and fresh water and  
steam heat and outgoing sewage and telephone wire abd whatever else  
which cohabit in the same intestinal holes that pavement-demolishing  
workmen periodically wrench open to the daylight and to our passing,  
disturbed glances" (pg.7)

What Manhattanite does not relate?

K



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