Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Egan, Jennifer |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 10/9/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The highly acclaimed debut novel f
rom the
bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s—one lost, one seeking—on “a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain” (The New Yorker).
The political dramaand familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor,age eighteen, in 1978. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, abeautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truthabout Faith’s life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco acrossEurope, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family,love, and Faith’s lost generation.
This spellbinding novel introduced Egan’s remarkableability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.
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