The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholi
Chronic City: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries): novel
โ Scribed by Lethem, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385532156
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โฆ Synopsis
A searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies. Chase lives off residuals earned as a child star, living a life of cloistered ease, until a pop critic with a conspiratorial counter cultural savvy forces him to confront the answer to several mysteries tightly intertwined within the tragic fabric of the city itself.
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