Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host...
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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 dis...
The story-within-a-story device has been so overplayed in literature that as a twist, it runs the risk of tedium. Jennifer Egan, in her gripping and sophisticated novel THE KEEP, raises the bar and gives the screw a few more turns: he...
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 s...
* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* A Time magazine and USA Today Top 10 Novel of 2017* Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction* Longl...
* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* Winner of the New York City Book Award* New York Times Bestseller * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Pos...
Stripped of her image and identity after a devastating car accident and the resulting massive reconstructive surgery, Charlotte Swenson, a jaded model, is faced with a difficult struggle to rebuild her life in a culture obsessed with ...
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 reasse...
The Best American Short Stories 2014
Jennifer Egan"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling ...
* Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2022 by The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer,and Slate *Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker,NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue,and ...
Two cousins, devastated by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a castle in Eastern Europe. The fortress has a bloody history that stretches back hundreds of years. Amid extreme paranoia and eerie silence, the men...