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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Corsair
- Paperback Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780331218 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 3, 2017 | 9781405538886 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780334646 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780331218 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 3, 2017 | 9781405538886 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780334646 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Corsair
- Paperback Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780331218 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 3, 2017 | 9781405538886 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Dec 20, 2001 | 9781780334646 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad.
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 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 own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
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Praise for Emerald City and Other Stories
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Egan displays wonderful empathy toward people who are standing at the brink of life; her tales celebrate the power of hope and redemption. Like a necklace in which every stone is a stunner, Emerald City will take your breath away - Glamour
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Astounding...The wistfulness of her characters, her transcendent prose-concise and lyrical-and the consistently high caliber of stories in this collection mark Jennifer Egan as a tremendous talent. - Detour Magazine
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Immensely appealing...Told with dazzling insight and emotional daring - Elle
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Affecting accuracy...quiet but disturbing...She deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for one another based on passing observations - Time Magazine
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boldly modulated short stories, tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth...riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian...piercingly tender...outstanding. - New York Times Book Review
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...almost as good as her astounding novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which is going some. - Observer Books of 2012
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
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