NP: "Chronic City"

[rich]

manhattan is boring--its a frat town with society people, nothing more

the boros are alot more interesting and untapped beyond the park
slope, brooklyn heights ex-manhattanite jerk offs

sorry, i was born in brooklyn and i'm a bit peeved by what nyc has become

On 6/23/09, Kevin Dunn <kevindunn27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> K
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> Sent from my iPhone
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