Jennifer Egan

En plena crisis de madurez, Bennie Salazar, que en los setenta formó parte de una banda de punk y ahora es un alto ejecutivo de la decadente industria discográfica, se echa copos de oro en el café para recuperar el apetito sexual. Sasha, su asistente después de haber viajado mucho y no siempre en circunstancias felices, se trata de su cleptomanía con un psicoanalista que viste jerséis estrambóticos. En torno a ellos se despliega una variopinta red de personajes, desde una relaciones públicas que intenta lavarle la cara a un general genocida hasta un eriodista que ha estado en prisión por abusar de una estrella de cine adolescente. Con el rock palpitando en cada una de sus páginas, El tiempo es un canalla es un entramado fascinador que pasa por lugares como Nueva York, San Francisco, Kenia, Nápoles o el desierto de California, y cubre un período que va de los años setenta hasta el 2020. La mirada punzante de Jennifer Egan aúna lo cómico y lo trágico, y consigue que los fragmentos de tiempos y espacios dispersos converjan en una novela polifónica e innovadora que recurre a técnicas narrativas insólitas para acabar trazando un lúcido retrato de la era digital. JENNIFER EGAN es autora de The Keep, Look

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del año según The New York Times. La culminación de un gran proyecto narrativo iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer) La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexion real en un mundo cada vez mas digitalizado e hiperconectado.La critica ha dicho:"Un trepidante paseo polifonico por Estados Unidos en las garras de una tecnologia que permite a los demas introducirse en tu mente".Margaret Atwood "Una novela compleja para un mundo complejo e hiperconectado. [...] Una novela que se ajusta a la epoca como un guante, sin renunciar a lo importante: la literatura".El Mundo "Una autentica golosina".El Periodico"Un festin li

Un retrato tragicómico y nostálgico de la industria musical estadounidense desde los años sesenta hasta hoy.Premio Pulitzer Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la decada por la revista Time, esta novela esta compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discografico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problematica asistente. Una historia generacional con multiples caidas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los años setenta hasta el hastio de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S. Con la musica palpitando en cada pagina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologia en las personas, asi como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas.La critica ha dicho:"Una magistral novela en la que Egan cuenta, jugando con el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, una adictiva historia sobre las derivas e implicaciones del mundo digital, la tecnologia y las redes".Informacion "Una novela rica e inolvidable sobre la decadencia y la resistencia, sobre individuos en un mundo quecambia a su alrededor... [Egan] es una de las escritoras con mas talen

Manhattan Beach: by Jennifer Egan | Conversation StartersManhattan Beach is the most recent work of art from author Jennifer Egan. Leaving behind her normal style of writing, Jennifer effectively depicts the World War II era from the points of view of a very strong young lady, her father, and his boss. Primarily following the journey of Anna Kerrigan, from childhood through adulthood, Manhattan Beach brings to life a vivid read of the mob, corruption, luck, love, hope and more.One of Amazons Best Books of October 2017, this historical novel brings darkness and light together in an epic story readers wont soon forget. Long listed for the National Book Award for Fiction before it was even released to the public, this is one novel that has future award winner written all over it.A Brief Look Inside:EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPERthan the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,and the characters and its world still live on.Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed tobring us beneath the surface of the pageand invite us into the world that lives on.These questions can be used to..Create Hours of Conversation: Foster a deeper understanding of the book Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

'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' Stylist magazine'This is a novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories' New York Times Book ReviewThe long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.'We're going to see the sea,' Anna whispered. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.'Beautifully rendered . . . genuinely affecting and handsomely constructed. It moves for all the right reasons' Independent 'A gripping, modern version of a 19th century novel . . . such an absorbing read' Evening Standard

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 derni

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered.Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.

Punkrock, Sex, Kokain, Therapiesitzungen, Ehebruch, Smartpad-Wahn, die Auswuchse digitaler Kommunikation (NeuR job in sicht, $$$ Rlich?), Euphorie, Verzweiflung, Tattoos, die spater wie zerfressene Polster uber eingefallene Bizeps und Hangearsche sacken das ist nur eine kleine Auswahl der Themenvielfalt dieses bemerkenswerten Romans. Jedes der Kapitel funktioniert auch als eine eigenstandige Kurzgeschichte, die jeweils aus der Perspektive einer Figur erzahlt wird, die hauptsachlich oder am Rande mit den zentralen Charakteren in Verbindung steht. Sie erzahlen und verschwinden, tauchen jedoch haufig in anderen Kapiteln wieder auf. Bennie spielte in seiner Jugend in einer Rockband, wurde spater Musikproduzent, Sash ist seine Assistentin, Lou sein Mentor, Mindy dessen neue Freundin, Rolph Lous Sohn die Liste ist lang. Doch in schlafwandlerischer Sicherheit wechselt die Erzahlstimme virtuos Perspektive, Zeit und Raum, ohne den Leser zu verwirren. Die Geschichten sind so stark, dass man sich ergriffen, besturzt und gebannt dem Zwang des Weiterlesens nicht entziehen kann. Kein Wunder, dass dieser Roman den Pulitzer-Preis erhalten hat!

At the start of this edgy and multilayered novel, a model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident with her face shattered. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable. With the surreal authority of David Lynch, Egan threads Charlotte's narrative with those of other casualties of infatuation with the image.

A vingt ans, Anna est fermement décidée à retrouver son père. Disparu cinq ans plus tôt dans d'étranges circonstances, la jeune femme sent qu'il est en vie quelque part. Anna n'a aucun do

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 discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student...CONTINÚA

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 secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.

After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desolation, isolation and paranoia, the cousins are falling under the gothic spell of the castle and its violent history. The crimes of the past and present are about to collide, and with unthinkable results ...

L'Anna Kerrigan, una nena de gairebé dotze anys, acompanya el seu pare a la casa de Manhattan Beach d'en Dexter Styles, un home que ella intueix que és clau per a la supervivència del seu pare i de la seva família. La platja que descobreix en aquella visita la meravella tant com el secret que envolta la relació entre els dos homes.Anys després, el seu pare ha desaparegut i el país esta en guerra. L'Anna treballa reparant vaixells sota l'aigua a la Drassana Naval de Brooklyn. En aquest període tan difícil, en el qual les dones poden fer feines que abans només estaven reservades als homes, que ara són al front, ha aconseguit convertir-se en la primera dona bus de la drassana, una de les ocupacions més perilloses i dures que s'hi duen a terme. Una nit, en una sala de festes, per casualitat, el camí de l'Anna es torna a creuar amb el del senyor Styles, l'home que va visitar de petita. I és a partir d'aquesta trobada que ella comença a entendre la complexitat de la vida del seu pare.Amb l'atmosfera d'una novel·la negra de misteri, Jennifer Egan ens capbussa magistralment en la Nova York de la Segona Guerra Mundial, una ciutat plena de gangsters, mariners, soldats, banquers i bussos. Manhattan Beach és un retrat delicat i enlluernador d'un moment clau que ho va canviar tot entre homes i dones.

Danny, que por lo general evita ir a lugares que no disponen de conexión wi-fi, se ve obligado a alejarse por un tiempo de Nueva York. Busca refugio en el castillo que, en algún lugar recóndito de Europa Central, su enigmatico y exitoso primo Howie quiere convertir en un hotel de lujo. La construccion no esconde solo un sofisticado sistema de cuevas y tuneles, sino que guarda tambien muchas otras sorpresas: unos extraños gemelos, un estanque oscuro, una baronesa siniestra, una torre temible. Danny y Howie, marcados por una cruel broma infantil de consecuencias devastadoras, reviven enese singular paraje aquel episodio mientras un preso, encarcelado por haber cometido algo que no se nombra, cuenta una historia en la que pasado y presente establecen una inquietante relacion. En"La torre del homenaje", novela de fascinante arquitectura, Jennifer Egan hila un relato perturbador, de gran tension psicologica, sobre los vinculos entre la imaginacion y los distintos cautiverios de la vida moderna.

Dos cosins, marcats a foc per una experiència traumàtica d’infantesa, es reuneixen vint anys després per restaurar un castell medieval mig abandonat perdut en algun punt de l’Europa oriental. Les cos

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad. It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea.He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious--that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of styles--from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters" who track and exploit desires and there are "eluders," those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House.Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Egan takes her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture" (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption.