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Manhattan Goes Meta in Jonathan Lethem's 'Chronic City'new

Unlike Pynchon in The Crying of Lot 49, which this book at first resembles, Lethem keeps his readers (and his narrator) at too critical a distance, and explains far too much, and thus leaves me still waiting for that novel where Lethem finally knocks one all the way into the bleachers.
Willamette Week  |  Matthew Korfhage  |  10-21-2009  |  Fiction

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