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Synopsis
The high ideals and inevitable compromises of the 1960s form the background to this acclaimed first novel. Phoebe O'Connor, eighteen years old in the summer of 1978, is too young to have known the sixties, but old enough to wistfully long for what is now past. Living in San Francisco with her mother, Phoebe has always been obsessed by the memory of her charismatic older sister, Faith, a passionate flower child who died in Italy in 1970. Searching for the truth about her death and life, Phoebe impulsively follows Faith's trail from San Francisco through Europe, culminating in the very place where she leapt to her death. The truth that Phoebe discovers on her journey is larger and darker than one death, going straight to the ambiguous heart of a generation that tried to follow its dreams of freedom. `Egan writes well about her chosen period, conveying its atmosphere of self-conscious decadence with unerring accuracy' The Times `A trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain' New Yorker `A real page turner. Dramatic, suspenseful and beautifully written' Robert Stone
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A trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain. (The New Yorker)
Punches home like a blow to the stomach." (Elle)
Mesmerizing....told with great assurance and power....Ms. Egan portrays the sisters with a quiet, heartbreaking clarity. (New York Times Book Review)
Elegant and brilliant....spellbinding, heartbreaking, and told by a master. (Cosmopolitan)
If there were justice in the world, no one would be allowed to write a first novel of such beauty and accomplishment. (Pat Conroy)
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From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0330489119
- ISBN 13 9780330489119
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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