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. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destructhow to spot a cheater click here wives cheat

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Literature & Fiction

Jennifer Egan

Literary

Random House, Inc.

These eleven masterful storiesthe first collection from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egandeal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egans charactersmodels and housewives, bankers and schoolgirlsare united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald Citya teens discovery of his fathers secret life, a financial trader who runs into the con man who swindled himare seamless evocations of self-discovery.

Emerald City

Contemporary

Picador

Recently recovered from a catastrophic car accident, fashion model Charlotte Swenson returns to life in Manhattan. Her beautiful face conceals eighty titanium screws that hold together her shattered bones. Charlotte, now unrecognizable to those who knew her before the accident, begins to float invisibly away from her former life and into an ephemeral world of fashion nightclubs and Internet projects, where image and reality blur. Look at Me is both a satire of our image-obsessed times and a mystery of human identity. Jennifer Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in a culture preoccupied with surfaces and asks whether 'truth' can have any meaning in an era when reality itself has become a style. Written with a masterful intelligence and grace, Look at Me establishes Jennifer Egan as one of the most daring and gifted novelists of her generation. 'The plot is a glorious and intricate mechanism, but it is Egan's style that ignites the imagination. Her prose is balanced, evocative and beautiful. And her underlying interest in the nature of self, image and reality permeates this sardonic and forceful work' Daily Telegraph 'Bitingly intelligent satire on American celebrity culture' Independent 'A parody of the self-discovery novel, it's an intelligent, gripping read about the manipulation of the individual' Time Out

Look at Me

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 virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlottes narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. Theres a deceptively plain teenage girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

Look at Me [LOOK AT ME]

The Keep

ABACUS +

From National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me (âBrilliantly unnerving . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novelâ âThe New York Times), a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscapeâa dazzling tour de force.Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable storyâa story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castleâthat brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.Eganâs relentlessly gripping page-turner plays with rich formsâghost story, love story, gothicâand transfixing themes: the undertow of history, the fate of imagination in the cacophony of modern life, the uncanny likeness between communications technology and the supernatural. In a narrative that shifts seamlessly from an ancient European castle to a maximum security prison, Egan conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keepâthe last stand, the final holdout, the place you run to when the walls are breachedâis both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.A novel of fierce intelligence and velocity; a bravura performance from a writer of consummate skill and style.

The Keep (Sound Library)

BBC Audiobooks

Look at Me: A Novel

Anchor

Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly fifty years. A Visit from the Goon Squad is about time, about survival, about our private terrors, and what happens when we fail to rebound.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Constable Robinson

Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel, demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.

Corsair

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Emerald City

Look at Me

Look at Me [LOOK AT ME]

The Keep

The Keep (Sound Library)

Look at Me: A Novel

A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Look at Me