Fiction/978-0-307-38752-3
THE KEEP
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. 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 story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
Fiction/978-1-4000-7974-2
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 film, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with image. There’s 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.
Fiction/978-0-385-72135-6
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Copyright© 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by Jennifer Egan
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in different form in the United Kingdom by Picador, London, in 1993, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1996.
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The stories in this collection have appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: “Why China?” “The Stylist,” and “Sisters of the Moon” in The New Yorker; “Sacred Heart” in New England Review and Best of New England Review; “Emerald City” in Mademoiselle (as “Another Pretty Face”) and Voices of the Xiled; “The Watch Trick” and “Passing the Hat” in GQ; “Puerto Vallarta” in Ploughshares and Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards; “Spanish Winter” in Ploughshares; “One Piece” in The North American Review; “Letter to Josephine” in Boulevard.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese / Doubleday edition
as follows:
Egan, Jennifer.
Emerald city : stories / Jennifer Egan.—1st ed. in the U.S.A.
p. cm.
1. Manners and customs—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.G292E44 1996
813′.54—dc20
95-35956
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