Emerald City and Other Stories (Paperback)

Jennifer Egan (author)

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Paperback 176 Pages
Published: 19/01/2012

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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.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781780331218
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 146 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 14 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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

Immensely appealing...Told with dazzling insight and emotional daring - Elle

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

boldly modulated short stories, tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth...riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian...piercingly tender...outstanding. - New York Times Book Review

...almost as good as her astounding novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which is going some. - Julie Burchill, Observer Books of 2012

Jennifer Egan

American writer Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her non-fiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine.