Overview:
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.
“Fiction writers are connoisseurs of memory…. Egan, a writer of understated elegance, is no exception, and it’s clear that she retains keen memories of girlhood, that quicksilver time of eagerness and fear, vulnerability and conviction. She mined this deep vein with great success in her bittersweet novel, The Invisible Circus, and it fuels her boldly modulated short stories, tales of displacement and blazing movements of truth.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A seamless collection…. Displays a gift for cool, clean, wrenching prose. Jennifer Egan has modern life down pat, and in this smartly crafted collection, she hands it over.”
—People
“Astounding…. The wistfulness of her characters, her transcendent prose—concise and lyrical—and the consistently high caliber of stories in this collection mark Jennifer Egan as a tremendous talent. “
—Detour Magazine
“Egan displays wonderful empathy toward people who are standing at the brink of life; her tales celebrate the power of hope and redemption. Like a necklace of which every stone is a stunner, Emerald City will take your breath away.”
—Glamour
“Accomplished…. She brings us to the transcendent place where reality becomes illusion.”
—News day
“Egan is a skillful writer with a good eye, a smooth yet passion- ate style.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Egan’s voice is boundless…. The moment of change is so carefully constructed in each story, so fascinating in Ms. Egan’s offhand way, that one recognizes a great new writer.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Immediately apparent is Egan’s versatility, and the confidence she has to create such dramatically different characters from numerous backgrounds.”
—Bookends
“Distant settings and enticing writing … all bear the unmistakable stamp of a rising talent at work…. Egan takes chances, ventures afar.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Egan displays a mastery of voice for a young writer…. Her voice moves easily and accurately between characters, her stories as beautifully crafted as they are darkly moving.”
—Charlotte Observer
“Both Emerald City and The Invisible Circus shimmer with moments when everyday life seems imbued with intimations of the marvelous…. Egan’s finely polished gems, mined from the expanse of her rich imagination, will surely retain their literary luster. “
—NewCity’s Literary Supplement
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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