Alors qu'elle a presque douze ans, Anna Kerrigan accompagne son père chez Dexter Styles, un homme qui, comprend-elle, est crucial pour la survie de sa famille. Derrière sa maison, elle aperçoit l'océan, qui l'émerveille autant que le mystère pesant qui lie les deux hommes. Des années plus tard, son ...
La solitude, les regrets mais surtout le désir, sous toutes ses formes - désir de changer, de se racheter, d'échapper à son quotidien -, sont au coeur de ces onze nouvelles magistrales. Depuis des lieux exotiques, comme la Chine ou Bora-Bora, cosmopolites, comme Manhattan, ou plus banals, comme une ...
Enfants, Danny et Howie ont partagé les mêmes jeux, jusqu'à ce que Danny trahisse Howie. Vingt ans plus tard, les rôles ont changé : Howie a fait fortune alors que Danny accumule les échecs. Ce dernier rejoint Howie aux confins de la Bohême pour rénover un château médiéval. Dans un climat de tension...
Dans la luxueuse berline qui l'emmène à sa maison de disque, Bennie avale les paillettes d'or censées réveiller sa libido en berne. Qu'est devenu le jeune punk qui ne vivait que pour la musique et la scène ? Bientôt, son groupe sera de nouveau réuni. A ce tournant de leurs vies, si éloignées de leur...
San Francisco, 1978. Phoebe, dix-huit ans, vit dans le culte de sa soeur aînée Faith, partie pour l'Europe dans les années 60 pour un voyage sans retour. Le périple aurait pris fin en Italie où elle se serait donné la mort... Pour comprendre cette disparition et fuir une existence devenue étouffante...
Dès qu'elle a pu fuir la médiocrité de Rockford, Alabama, la belle Charlotte Swenson a gagné les lumières de Manhattan pour devenir mannequin. Elle y a connu le succès avant qu'un terrible accident de voiture ne la défigure et ruine définitivement sa carrière. Au cours de sa longue convalescence, el...
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. They ...
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 in 19...
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. They ...
At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, 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 it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecog...
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 prank...
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secr...
'This is a novel that will pull you in and under and carry you away on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the reader long after the novel ends' the Guardian'2017's Most Anticipated Book . . . it will suck you into its orbit and remind you just why it is you love reading' Stylis...
A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other char...
A spellbinding work of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan. ...
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 which yields both complex and disturbing revelat...
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Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. ...
'Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.'America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman w...
A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other char...
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. They ...
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