Jennifer Egan

Broschiertes Buch

The Invisible Circus

Beschreibung

The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s one lost, one seeking on "a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain" (The New Yorker).

The political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor, age eighteen, in 1978. 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.

Autor

Jennifer Egan

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anchor Books / Penguin Random House
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 32338655
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780307387523
• ISBN-10: 0307387526
• Artikelnr.: 22896317

Rezensionen

Mesmerizing. . . . Told with great assurance and power. . . . Egan portrays the sisters with a quiet, heartbreaking clarity.
The New York Times Book Review

Wonderful. . . . Words glide through her fingers and enter the pores like cool San Francisco fog.
Los Angeles Times Book Review

Brilliant in its authenticity and overwhelming passion.
The Boston Globe

A trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain.
The New Yorker