Jennifer Egan: 26 books

É essa a realidade, não é?Vinte anos depois, a sua beleza já foi para o lixo, especialmentequando arrancaram fora metade das suas entranhas.O tempo é cruel, não é? Não é assim que se diz?”Bennie Salazar é um executivo da indústria fonográfica. Sasha é sua assistente cleptomaníaca....

A National Book Award Finalist In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the acclaimed and award-winning writer Jennifer Egan, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble...

Sasha a une petite trentaine. Elle vivote à New York, après avoir quitté son poste d’assistante de production dans une grande maison de disques. On la découvre sur le canapé de son psychothérapeute, tentant de régler son problème de kleptomanie et de remettre de l’ordre dans sa vie. Sans...

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the...

In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy...

These eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience....

Instigada pelas possibilidades de uso criativo do Twitter, Jennifer Egan escreveu o conto Caixa preta. Veiculado originalmente no perfil da revista norte-americana New Yorker, a obra foi em seguida publicada na edição especial de ficção científica da revista. Com tradução de Juliana Romeiro...

Primeiro romance da premiada autora Jennifer Egan, Circo invisível se passa em 1978, tomando as tensões e os dramas políticos dos anos 1960 como cenário da história de Phoebe O’Connor, uma adolescente de 18 anos obcecada pela memória da irmã, Faith, uma jovem hippie, bela e idealista que...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Winner PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Best Book One of the Best Books of the Year:** Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O,...

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood...

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Sam Lafferty has hit bottom. Under investigation and on leave from the financial services firm that employed him, Sam has uprooted his wife and two daughters and dragged them against their will to central China. While on this rotten family vacation,...

Nu al een klassieker! In Bezoek van de knokploeg maken we kennis met platenproducer Bennie, zijn vroegere punkvriend Scotty, Sasha, kleptomane en Bennies assistente, knappe Alex, Sasha's date voor één nacht, en vele anderen. Daar waar hun levens elkaar kruisen verwoordt Jennifer Egan met...

Danny et Howie ont partagé les mêmes jeux d’enfants, des mondes inventés, peuplés de héros et de salauds, jusqu’à ce que Howie plonge dans la dépression suite à un tour sinistre combiné par son cousin. Vingt ans plus tard, les rôles ont été redistribués : Howie a fait fortune alors...