Reddit reviews Satin Island: A novel

You might want to check out Satin Island by Tom McCarthy. https://www.amazon.com/Satin-Island-novel-Tom-McCarthy/dp/0307593959

I'm a fan of Vidal, but he isn't at his best in the City and the Pillar - Myra Breckinridge or Duluth would be better choices.

Also, I think these, all of which came out in the last 6 months or so, would be worth considering:

The Snow Queen
by Michael Cunningham
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374266328/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

"Cunningham’s elegant and haunting new novel examines the complex dynamics among a couple and a brother. In this configuration, Barrett Meeks, a poetically minded man in his late thirties who has just been dumped by his most recent boyfriend via text message, shares a Brooklyn apartment with Tyler, his older musician-bartender brother, and Beth, Tyler’s great love."

Satin Island
by Tom McCarthy
http://www.amazon.com/Satin-Island-novel-Tom-McCarthy/dp/0307593959

"U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape."

Dear Thief
by Samantha Harvey
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937894460/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

“A story about a long friendship and the betrayals that tore it apart, this thoughtful meditation, interspersed with reflections on philosophy, religion, and poetry, is about the passages of time, the accumulation of memory, and the hard-won wisdom of aging.” —Library Journal