THE CANDU HOUSE - JENNIFER EGAN

Libro

Editorial	SCRIBNER
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	EGAN JENNIFER
ISBN	9781476716770
Peso ( kg )	0,316
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2023
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	THE CANDU HOUSE From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an "inventive, effervescent" Oprah Daily novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"-which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters" who track and exploit desires and there are "eluders," those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. JENNIFER EGAN Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago, where her paternal grandfather was a police commander and bodyguard for President Truman during his visits to that city. She was raised in San Francisco and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge, in England. In those student years she did a lot of traveling, often with a backpack: China, the former USSR, Japan, much of Europe, and those travels became the basis for her first novel, The Invisible Circus, and her story collection, Emerald City. She came to New York in 1987 and worked an array of wacky jobs while learning to write: catering at the World Trade Center; joining the word processing pool at a midtown law firm; serving as the private secretary for the Countess of Romanones, an OSS spy-turned-Spanish countess by marriage , who wrote a series of bestsellers about her spying experiences and famous friends. Edad: adultos EGAN JENNIFER Jennifer Egan es una escritora estadounidense nacida el 7 de septiembre de 1962 en Chicago, Illinois. Se crio en San Francisco y estudió en la Universidad de Pensilvania y en el St. John's College de la Universidad de Cambridge. Es conocida por sus novelas, entre ellas El tiempo es un canalla, que ganó el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción en 2011, y Manhattan Beach, una novela histórica ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. También ha publicado La casa de caramelo, considerada uno de los mejores libros de 2022. Además de su trabajo como novelista, Egan ha escrito relatos y piezas periodísticas para revistas como The New Yorker, Harper's y The New York Times Magazine. Desde 2018, es presidenta de PEN América, una organización que defiende la libertad de expresión.
Cantidad de páginas	368
Fecha Ingreso	30-06-2025