Jennifer Egan

The Candy House

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Produktbeschreibung

'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' Time It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalising" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious - that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others - has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, Egan delivers a fierce and exhilarating tale of connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. 'A dazzling feat of literary construction' Vogue 'A clever, endlessly inventive exploration of our increasingly connected, surveilled society and the individual yearning for privacy and meaning' Guardian

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 497029
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781472150943
• ISBN-10: 1472150945
• Artikelnr.: 60586443

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her non-fiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.

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Praise for The Candy House

"The novel - with its prismatic plotting and ever-shifting chorus of seekers, kooks, and visionaries - feels less like a house than a honeycomb full of fantastical rooms, each one alive and thrumming with bright, weird humanity." -Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

"The Candy House is really an incredible feat... astonishing, even a little bewildering! Jenny is shockingly underrated. She should have the kind of fawning sycophants that dudes like Franzen and Denis Johnson do. Let the cult begin herewith!"
-James Hannaham, New York Times Book Review

"This is minimalist maximalism. It's as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century triple-decker novel onto a flash drive... Egan goes all in on the power of storytelling and of fiction."
-Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"A brilliant demonstration of the unquantifiable pleasures of great fiction."
-Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"Radiant... an exhilarating delight...Egan opens windows on entrancing new worlds, in which what happened depends on who's telling the story."
-Laura Miller, Slate

"You don't have to read A Visit From the Goon Squad to love this sibling novel to Egan's stellar hit... complex and intimate."
-Good Housekeeping

"May be the smartest novel you read all year... Fiction at its best... gets at our secret selves in ways the internet can't... Egan's audacity is welcome."
-Mark Athitakis, USA Today

"This is a beautiful exploration of loss, memory and history, a not too subtle critique of what is lost when we live our lives online."
-Allison Arieff, The San Francisco Chronicle

"A fast-paced polyvoiced romp thru America in the grip of a sinister tech that allows others into your mind. EEK!"
-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments