Bøker av Jennifer Egan

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.A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.

The long-awaited novel from the bestselling author of Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad

Vinner av Pulitzerprisen og National Book Critics Circle-prisen.Stjerneprodusenten Bennie Salazar er tidligere punkrocker, nå en middelaldrende mann som må ty til gullflak i kaffen for å holde potensen oppe. Sasha er den unge, kleptomane kvinnen han ansetter. Hun har små grønne piller i vesken sin og et tett forhold til psykiateren, som stadig får høre om alle de mannlige besøkene i den lille manhattanleiligheten hennes. Bølle på døra yrer av liv og av de uforglemmelige karakterene som befinner seg i kretsen av familie og venner rundt Bennie og Sasha. Romanen hopper fram og tilbake i tid, for på briljant vis å avdekke fortiden til disse menneskene. Slik gir den også et varmt og ærlig portrett av både en tid og en generasjon.

Spennende historisk roman fra forfatteren av A visit from the goon squad (Bølle på døra)New York, 1930-tallet: Anna Kerrigan, tolv år og tøffere enn de fleste, blir med faren Eddie når han skal ut på oppdrag som fagforeningsmann. Men under et besøk hos rikingen Dexter Styles begynner hun å ane at faren driver med en litt mer lyssky virksomhet, som er grunnen til at familien får visse privilegier. Men Anna blir ikke skremt, tvert imot er hun stolt over å få dele en viktig hemmelighet med faren sin, som hun elsker høyt.Et tiår senere: Andre verdenskrig raser, og kvinner har fått innpass i tradisjonelle mannsyrker. Anna har fått arbeid ved marineverftet i Brooklyn, der hun jobber med å måle små deler til skipskonstruksjon. Hun drømmer om å bli dykker, men det er en jobb som fortsatt er forbeholdt menn fordi den er så fysisk krevende og farlig. Annas far er sporløst forsvunnet, og Anna har ansvaret for å forsørge moren og den usedvanlig vakre, funksjonshemmede lillesøsteren. En kveld treffer Anna igjen Dexter Styles på en nattklubb, og gjennom ham får hun innblikk i en brutal verden av gangstere og forretningsfolk som ikke skyr noen midler - en verden hvor faren hennes åpenbart hadde en viktig rolle.Jennifer Egans første historiske roman omtales allerede som et mesterverk. Spennende som en krimfortelling, og samtidig gripende om kjønn, familiebånd og lidenskap i en tid da alt sto på spill.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Best BookOne of the Best Books of the Year:Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village VoiceBennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive.Sasha isthe passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is astartling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel, demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.

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 sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.This spellbinding novel introduced Egan's remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.

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.

New Yorker Danny is running from something. A loner who cannot bear to be apart from his Wi-Fi connection, he is in need of refuge. His cousin Howie is an enigmatic and successful former drug addict who just happens to own a castle. As they turn the castle from crumbling ruin to luxury hotel, Howie and Danny must navigate their uncomfortable relationship. And the castle has some surprises of its own: a sinister baroness, a tragic accident in a fathomless pool, a treacherous labyrinth, and through all of this, a story within a story . . . An unnerving, haunting and unforgiving tale of modern life and modern man, the novel before A Visit from the Goon Squad is filled with Egan's breathtaking style and remarkable voice.