from one of today\'s boldest writers comes a sly, surprising, and exhilarating novel about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies. -- The New York Times Book Review.
Egan possesses a satirist\'s eye and a romance novelist\'s heart.
Darkly, rippingly funny....
Pitch perfect....
Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.
Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER - With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn\'t, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human ( The Chicago Tribune ) .
from one of today\'s boldest writers comes a sly, surprising, and exhilarating novel about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies