Jennifer Egan

Quotes

• “"We live in a city where people will steal the hair off your head if you give them half a chance, but you leave your stuff lying in plain sight and expect it to be waiting for you when you come back?"”
• “She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well””
• “It jarred Sasha to think of herself as a glint in the hazy memories that Alex would struggle to organize a year or two from now: Where was that place with the bathtub? Who was that girl?””
• “All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged"”
• “[Coz] was trying to get Sasha to use that word, which was harder to avoid in the case of a wallet than with a lot of the things she'd lifted over the past year, when her condition (as Coz referred to it) had begun to accelerate: five sets of keys, fourteen pairs of sunglasses, a child's striped scarf…Sasha no longer took anything from stores—their cold, inert goods didn't tempt her. Only from people.”
• “The shame memories began early that day for Bennie, during the morning meeting, while he listened to one of his senior executives make a case for pulling the plug on Stop/Go, a sister band Bennie had signed to a three-record deal a couple of years back"”

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Key facts

Born

( 1962-09-07 ) September 7, 1962 (age 63) , Chicago , Illinois , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist

Education

University of Pennsylvania ( BA ) St John's College, Cambridge ( MA )

Genre

Fiction novel short story

Notable works

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Manhattan Beach (2017)

Notable awards

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award

Spouse

David Herskovits ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 ) ​

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Official website

jenniferegan.com

Image

Jennifer Egan Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone.JPG

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