Jennifer Egan is the author of The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
Jennifer Egan is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (http://www.rhspeakers.com).
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 9, 2007 Price: $14.00
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 9, 2007 Price: $15.95
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 10, 2007 Price: $15.95
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 8, 2002 Price: $15.95
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 22, 2011 Price: $15.95
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village Voice
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: June 8, 2010 Price: $26.95
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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...
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