EGAN JENNIFER

(P/B) THE CANDY HOUSE
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 lin...
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MANHATTAN BEACH
"Θα πάμε να δούμε τη θάλασσα". Νέα Υόρκη, 1934. Η δωδεκάχρονη Άννα Κέρριγκαν συνοδεύει τον πατέρα της στην επίσκεψη στο σπίτι του Ντέξτερ Στάυλς, ο οποίος, απ' ό, τι φαίνεται, μπορεί να έχει καθοριστικό ρόλο στην επιβίωση της οικογένειάς της. Η θάλασσα που εκτείνεται πέρα από το σπίτι καθώς και το φορτισμένο μυστήριο που υπάρχει ανάμεσα στους δύο άντρες τη μαγεύουν. Χρόνια αργότερα, ο πατέρας της έχει εξαφανιστεί και η χώρα βρίσκεται σε πόλεμο. Η Άννα δουλεύει στο ναυπηγείο του Μπρούκλυν. Οι γυναίκες μπορούν να κατέχουν θέσεις εργασίας που...
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(P/B) MANHATTAN BEACH
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...
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(P/B) THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS
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 spell...
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(P/B) A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
A brilliantly entertaining novel about memory, time, art and how humans connect at every level. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles 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, an...
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