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Emerald City

By Jennifer Egan

By Jennifer Egan

By Jennifer Egan

By Jennifer Egan

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Paperback $15.95

Oct 09, 2007 | ISBN 9780307387530

Ebook $11.99

Sep 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307765192

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    About Emerald City

    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.

    About Emerald City

    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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    Why China?
    A Visit from the Goon Squad
    The Invisible Circus
    The Keep
    Look at Me
    See all books by Jennifer Egan

    About Jennifer Egan

    Jennifer Egan is the author of 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 nonfiction appears… More about Jennifer Egan

    About Jennifer Egan

    Jennifer Egan is the author of 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 nonfiction appears… More about Jennifer Egan

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    Oct 09, 2007 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307387530

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Sep 29, 2010 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307765192

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    Praise

    “Lustrous. . . .These stories sparkle with Egan’s fresh imagery and precise renderings of mood and place. . . . A writer of tremendous intelligence and grace.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer“Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth. . . . Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian. . . . Piercingly tender. . . . Outstanding.” —The New York Times Book Review“Immensely appealing. . . . Told with dazzling insight and emotional daring.” —Elle“[Egan] deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for another based on passing observations.” —Time

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