Bøger af Jennifer Egan

New York Times-bestseller Anna Kerrigan på knap tolv får lov til at tage med sin far på besøg hos Dexter Styles, en mand som hun fornemmer er afgørende for hendes fars og hele familiens overlevelse. Hun tryllebindes af havet nedenfor Styles’ mægtige hus og en mystisk spænding, som hun registrerer mellem de to mænd. Nogle år senere er Annas far forsvundet, og USA og resten af verden er i krig. Anna arbejder på Brooklyn orlogsværft, hvor kvinder udfører arbejde, som tidligere hørte under mændene, der nu er i hæren. Hun bliver den første kvindelige dykker, den farligste og mest krævende beskæftigelse, med undersøiske reparationer af de gigantiske krigsskibe. En aften møder Anna igen Dexter Styles, og hun begynder at forstå de dybe hemmeligheder, hendes fars liv rummede, og baggrunden for hans forsvinden. Manhattan Beach er en betagende udforskning af en afgørende periode i USA’s og verdens historie, med en thrillers sugende og sortstemte spænding. Bogen er Egans første historiske roman og hendes første udgivelse, siden hun tog den læsende verden med storm med den prisvindende Tæskeholdet banker på. “Egan er en mester til det mesterlige og udøver en formidabel form for magi.” New York Times

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.

En charmerende, fræk og dybt alvorlig bog om at være ung og blive ældre, uden nødvendigvis at blive klogere.Den kleptomane Sasha arbejder hos stjerneproduceren Bennie Salazar, som efterhånden er grå i toppen og tyr til guldflager i kaffen for at holde potensen oppe. I sin ungdom skyllede han af sted på punkrockens bølge i Californien, men fik grebet fat i et holdepunkt på det helt rigtige tidspunkt, mens de andre fra bandet gik til bunds i coke og koncerter uden publikum. Sasha har små grønne piller i sin taske og et tæt forhold til sin psykiater, som hun pligtskyldigt fortæller om samtlige smårapserier og samtlige mænd, der kommer på korte besøg i hendes lille manhattanlejlighed.'Tæskeholdet banker på' sprudler af liv og af de uforglemmelige skæbner, som findes i den store kreds af venner og familie omkring Bennie og Sasha. Samtidig krydsklipper romanen ubesværet frem og tilbage i tiden hen over 40 år og bliver til et varmt og ærligt portræt af en tid og en generation. En både charmerende, fræk og dybt alvorlig bog om at være ung og blive ældre, uden nødvendigvis at blive klogere.Jennifer Egans brag af en roman modtog, for næsen af Jonathan Franzens 'Freedom', de fornemste priser i 2011: Pulitzerprisen og de amerikanske kritikeres pris. Romanen ligger desuden på ikke mindre end 20 engelske og amerikanske lister over årets bedste bøger.

Fra Jennifer Egan, en af ​​vor tids mest anerkendte forfattere, kommer nu en ny roman, som hun kalder en ‘søskenderoman’ til sin pulitzerprisvindende bestseller ‘Tæskeholdet banker på’, hvorfra flere personer går igen.I åbningen på ‘The Candy House’ møder vi den geniale Bix Bouton, hvis firma har så stor succes, at han er en af ​​de teknologiske halvguder, som vi alle er på fornavn med. Bix er rastløs og desperat efter en ny revolutionerende idé. Han finder den i en kreds af Columbia-professorer, hvoriblandt en eksperimenterer med at ‘downloade’ hukommelse. Det er 2010. Inden for et årti har Bixs nye teknologi forført masserne. Men ikke alle.I fascinerende fortællinger, der hænger sammen på kryds og tværs, viser Egan konsekvenserne af Bix’ nye teknologi livet igennem for romanens personer, hvis veje krydser hinanden i flere årtier. Romanen er et dybt bevægende vidnesbyrd om ​​menneskelig længsel efter ægte forbindelser, kærlighed og privatliv i en verden, hvor minder og identitet bliver overeksponeret gennem teknologien.

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

?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 author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as ?a new classic of American fiction.? Egan ?possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart? (New York Times Book Review).

"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. 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 interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. 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. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. If Goon Squad was organized like a concept album, The Candy House incorporates Electronic Dance Music's more disjunctive approach. The parts are titled: Build, Break, Drop. With an emphasis on gaming, portals, and alternate worlds, its structure also suggests the experience of moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture" (Vogue). The Candy House delivers an absolutely extraordinary combination of fierce, exhilarating intelligence and heart"--

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.

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 reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.

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.

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.

Charlotte husker intet fra den bilulykke, der for altid forandrer hendes ansigt og dermed hendes identitet og karriere som model i Manhattans modeverden. Hun er forbandet over sin bitre skæbne og føler ingen større taknemmelighed over for den mystiske fremmede, som reddede hende ud af den brændende bil. Charlotte tvinges på rekreation i sin triste og på alle måder ufashionable hjemby i Illinois, uden for projektørernes skarpe lys. Her støder hun på en ung pige, som viser sig at være hendes navnesøster, og mens Charlotte kun ser en umiddelbar sammenhæng, forstår læseren bid for bid en dybere hemmelighed, som de to kvinder deler.’Se på mig’ er en på én gang bidende morsom og forunderlig roman om Charlottes groteske og grænseoverskridende strabadser for at overleve i en billedstyret verden – og en nænsom fortælling om den unge Charlottes enspænderliv og første, voldsomme forelskelse i en sky og ensom lærer.”Se på mig er morsom og alvorlig, på én gang nøgtern og fantastisk udtænkt. Egan skriver lige så knivskarpt, som hun registrerer verden. Læs den!”The Independent

Hun er en ung amerikansk spion på mission et sted ved Middelhavet. Skønhed er hendes camouflage. Hun blander sig med de andre skønheder, som magtens mænd omgiver sig med. Gennem underkastelse opnår hun kontrol. Hun skal være både uimodståelig og usynlig for sin Tildelte Partner – manden som hun skal aflytte og uskadeliggøre.’Sort boks’ så først dagens lys som en række tweets fra magasinet The New Yorker og er siden udkommet i bogform i en lang række lande.‘Sort boks’ er kvindens missionslog – en spionthriller i twitterformat fra bestseller-forfatteren Jennifer Egan.