| Emerald City Contributor(s): Egan, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307387534 ISBN-13: 9780307387530 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: 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 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 City "are seamless evocations of self-discovery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007282470 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.28" W x 7.94" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 City are seamless evocations of self-discovery. |