Jennifer Egan

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1) The candy house: a novel

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is 'one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.' Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology,...

2) A visit from the Goon Squad

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption "features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human" (The Chicago Tribune).
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha

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3) Manhattan Beach: a novel

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book Club Kit

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"Opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous...

4) The Best American Short Stories 2014

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Series

Best American Short Stories

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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"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 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new classic

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5) The keep

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

c2006

Edition

1st ed.

Language

English

6) Emerald City: And Other Stories

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Language

English

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These eleven masterful stories-the first collection from Pulitzer Prize–winning 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. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their...

7) The Invisible Circus

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Language

English

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In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe-a quest that yields both complex and...

8) Little Fires Everywhere: Thalia Book Club

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Language

English

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Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere, two stories of family secrets and the children who discover them. Performances by Cindy Cheung (Mistress America) and Susannah Rogers (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).