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Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Danny: Ageing New York hipster, with universal urban issues: cell phone dependancy, fashion victim, constantly shifting identity .
- Howard: Visionary yuppie who has left behind the world of finance to follow a dream to create a resort to foster imagination.
- Mick: Heroin addict sidekick of Howard.
- Ray: Our narrator, an inmate attending creative writing classes.
- Davis: Ray's seemingly crazy cellmate
- Holly: Down-at-luck teacher of a prison creative writing program.
- Nora: Howard's annoying dreadlocked nanny.
- Martha: Danny's 45 year old girlfriend
- Mel: Add a description of this character.
- Pete
- Rafe
- Tom-tom
- Seth
- Hannah
- Gabby
- Megan
- Corey
First Sentence edit
The castle was falling apart, but at 2 a.m. under a useless moon, Danny couldn't see this.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jennifer Egan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 1400043921
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 1400043921
Page Count: 256
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3555.G292 K44 2006
- Dewey: 813.54
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