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Elf meisterhafte Stories. Das erste Buch von Pulitzer-Preisträgerin und Bestsellerautorin Jennifer Egan
Es ist die Sehnsucht, die die Menschen in Jennifer Egans brillanten Geschichten umtreibt. Die Sehnsucht nach Veränderung, nach Befreiung, nach Glück. Erfolglose Models und enttäuschte Ehefrauen, Wall-Street-Banker und Betrüger, orientierungslose Schulkinder und Drogendealer – alle vereint auf der Suche nach etwas außerhalb ihrer eigenen Erfahrungswelt. An exotischen Orten wie China und Bora Bora, dem kosmopolitischen Manhattan oder der vertrauten Vorstadt. »Emerald City« kreist um die unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten der Phantasie und die Abenteuer der Seele.

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ISBN-13:	9783104907765
Publisher:	FISCHER E-Books
Publication date:	03/25/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB
Language:	German

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Jennifer Egan wurde 1962 in Chicago geboren und wuchs in San Francisco auf. Sie lebt heute mit ihrem Mann und zwei Söhnen in Brooklyn, New York. Neben ihren Romanen und Kurzgeschichten schreibt sie für den »New Yorker« sowie das »New York Times Magazine« und lehrt an der Columbia University Creative Writing. Für ihren Roman »Der größere Teil der Welt« erhielt sie 2011 den Pulitzer Prize, den National Book Critics Circle Award und den Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Zuletzt erschien ihr Roman »Manhattan Beach« (2017), der wochenlang auf der »New York Times«-Bestsellerliste stand.

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Ranging in setting from provincial China to downtown Manhattan, the 11 short stories in Egan's first collection trace characters grappling with a wide variety of backgrounds and situations. But whether portraying the ennervated atmosphere of an exotic fashion shoot in Africa (``The Stylist'') or a teen's discovery of her father's secret life (``Puerto Vallarta''), Egan's writing is even more assured and convincing than it was in her debut novel, The Invisible Circus. In the chilling ``Sacred Heart,'' about a young girl's obsessive infatuation with her school's premier self-destructive rebel, Egan manages to sustain an atmosphere charged with menace without resorting to predictable shock effects. Many of the tales concern Americans abroad, characters who are disconnected from both their present environments and from the lives they've left behind. This theme finds its most persuasive expression in the dazzling ``Why China?'' in which a troubled San Francisco financial trader encounters the con man who once cheated him out of $25,000. With remarkable economy, Egan develops an uneasy cat-and-mouse game between the two men, as well as a rare depth of characterization for such a short work. While a smattering of the tales here seem like apprentice work by comparison-the title story, for instance, which concerns a hyper-trendy photographer's assistant in Manhattan-the collection as a whole showcases Egan as a writer of admirable ambition and accomplishment. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Appearing just after the publication of her first novel, The Invisible Circus (LJ 11/15/94), Egan's stories will satisfy many readers. Her protagonists-adult men and women, and adolescents who fight fear, loneliness, boredom, and discontent-could be anyone anywhere. A troubled trader ("Why China?") takes his family to a remote province; a parochial school student ("Sacred Heart") copes with adolescent angst; estranged marital partners ("Passing the Hat") find happiness elusive; models and their photographers ("Emerald City") seek reality in an artificial world. Longing for what they lack in their own lives, Egan's characters witness life evolving around them. Readers will enjoy the author's crisp writing style and the realism of "plain folks" trying to cope with common problems in global settings. Recommended for fiction collections of public libraries.-Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.

Library Journal

Egan received a lot of press for her first novel, "The Invisible Circus" (1994), and deservedly so, for this follow-up collection of short stories proves she has talent to spare. Displaying a wide range and a whole host of traditional storytelling skills, Egan depicts people in conflict with themselves in milieus as sophisticated as downtown Manhattan and as remote as Bora Bora. In the heart-melting "One Piece," a 13-year-old pulls off a desperate ploy to put her family back together after her brother kills their mother in a freak accident. In the ironic "Why China?" a vacationing commodities trader recognizes a con man who bilked him and then allows the swindler to steal his daughter's affection. Each of these stories (and there's not a clinker in the bunch) comes fully loaded with believable characters, a story arc, a resolution--all the satisfying elements that seem so elusive in modern fiction. Egan is a generous, gifted, and spellbinding writer.

Joanne Wilkinson

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