Jennifer Egan
2010-06-08
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the 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.
“Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”—The New York Times Book Review
Egan's use of non-linear storytelling is as innovative as it is captivating, each chapter a snapshot that pieces together the mosaic of lives in flux. The prose is incisive and vibrant, capturing the ephemeral essence of music, culture, and human relationships. This novel challenges the traditional narrative form, inviting us to engage with its structure as much as its content. A bold, contemporary reflection on the passage of time and the pursuit of meaning.
