Chronic City by Jonathan Lethen (Vintage, 2010)
This New York Times “Best Book of the Year” features Chase Insteadman, a former child television star living off royalties and among socialites in Manhattan, who befriends an eccentric stoner named Perkus Tooth with whom he shares a strange and narcissistic gestalt. Even though he is engaged to Janus, an astronaut trapped in orbit, Chase takes a lover, Oonah, an aloof ghost writer, who is instrumental in his struggle to understand what is real and true. Loaded with pop cultural references and charged with an often absurd existential quest steeped in the improbable, the narrative smacks of "The Truman Story" but which has a grim ending (8/10).
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