The Keep

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Egan, Jennifer 저자(글)

Anchor Books · 2007년 07월 10일

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Jennifer Egan is the author ofLook at Me,which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award,The Invisible Circus,and the story collectionEmerald City.Her nonfiction appears frequently inThe New York Times Magazine.She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. From the Hardcover edition.
Jennifer Eganis the author of Look at Me, The Invisible Circus,and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Zoetrope,and Ploughshares,and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Dazzling. . . . The Keep is a work both prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving." The New York Times Book Review The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of The Keep, a modern-day Gothic tale that is at times realistic and wryly comical, at other times surreal and dreamlike. In The Keep, Jennifer Egan again displays the dazzling powers of invention that brought Look at Me a National Book Award nomination.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Dazzling. . . . The Keep is a work both prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving." The New York Times Book Review The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion ofThe Keep, a modern-day Gothic tale that is at times realistic and wryly comical, at other times surreal and dreamlike. InThe Keep, Jennifer Egan again displays the dazzling powers of invention that broughtLook at Mea National Book Award nomination.
1. What happens when you discover that Danny, in whose story we are immersed from the opening pages, is actually a character in the story being written by Ray, who is in prison [pp. 1819]? As you proceed, does your involvement in both Danny's story and Ray's story remain equal, or does one plot become primary and the other secondary? How does Egan navigate the transitions between these two plots?2. Jennifer Egan said in an interview thatThe Keeparose from a visit to a medieval castle. "The revelation was: This is something new to me, something different. I just want to be here for a while. I want this feeling. And for me, that sense of time and placeof atmospherepredates a character, a story, everything else except a few abstract notions that I want to explore [The Believer, August 2000]." Consider how the setting and situation affect you in the opening chapters. What is the feeling they evoke? How does Danny's very modern voice affect your response?3. Guilt plays a large role in the lives of several self-destructive characters inThe Keep. How does guilt for past actions shape the present lives of Danny and Holly?4. The Gothic novel is a genre that emerged in the eighteenth century with Horace Walpole's novelThe Castle of Otranto. Gothic novels often included crumbling ruins, dark secrets, imprisoned heroines, hidden passages, and so on. Why does Ray choose to write a modern Gothic novel, and how do elements like the castle, the baroness, and the drowned twins resonate against the hyper-modernity of the information age that Danny has so reluctantly left behind?5. What does the catalog of Danny's scars and injuries tell us about him? Is he particularly accident prone? Does Danny's character change over the course of the story?6. Danny is officially disconnected from his known world when his satellite dish, laboriously carried from Manhattan, falls into the castle's "Imagination Pool." Why is this funny? What are some of the other comic scenes in the novel?7. The series of questions that arises on page 158 is one of the frequent reminders that Danny's story is being written by a novice. Ray becomes inspired to take writing seriously when Holly tells the class to notice all the locked doors and gates surrounding them. She says, "My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head." Though Ray is skeptical about Holly's "cheesy motivational speech," he feels "something pop in [his] chest" [p. 20]. Why does Ray respond so powerfully to Holly's suggestion, despite the fact that "it was just figurative language" [p. 20], as he says?8.The Keepallows us to watch the process of someone becoming a writer. Ray listens to "ghost words" from his fellow convicts' former lives, writing them down "because every one has the DNA of a whole life in it, a life where those words fit in and made sense. . . . I save up those words and later on I open up the notebook where I'm keeping the journal Holly told us all to keep and I write them down one by one. And for some reason that puts me in a good mood, like money in the bank" [p. 61]. What does this suggest about close observation, words, and meaning in daily life?9.The Keepis filled with imagery of doors, windows, towers, tunnels, and stairways. Characters climb in, climb out, explore, are locked in, emerge into the light. Why is this imagery used so consistently, and whose imagination is creating or projecting it? Another major image is the pool: "There was the pool: round, quiet, black. The Imagination Pool" [p. 155]. How are these symbolic element
The castle was falling apart, but at 2 a.m. under a useless moon, Danny couldn't see this. What he saw looked solid as hell: two round towers with an arch between them and across that arch was an iron gate that looked like it hadn't moved in three hundred years or maybe ever. He'd never been to a castle before or even this part of the world, but something about it all was familiar to Danny. He seemed to remember the place from a long time ago, not like he'd been here exactly but from a dream or a book. The towers had those square indentations around the top that little kids put on castles when they draw them. The air was cold with a smoky bite, like fall had already come even though it was mid-August and people in New York were barely dressed. The trees were losing their leavesDanny felt them landing in his hair and heard them crunching under his boots when he walked. He was looking for a doorbell, a knocker, a light: some way into this place or at least a way to find the way in. He was getting pessimistic. Danny had waited two hours in a gloomy little valley town for a bus to this castle that never frigging came before he looked up and saw its black shape against the sky. Then he'd started to walk, hauling his Samsonite and satellite dish a couple of miles up this hill, the Samsonite's puny wheels catching on boulders and tree roots and rabbit holes. His limp didn't help. The whole trip had been like that: one hassle after another starting with the red eye from Kennedy that got towed into a field after a bomb threat, surrounded by trucks with blinky red lights and giant nozzles that were comforting up until you realized their job was to make sure the fireball only incinerated those poor suckers who were already on the plane. So Danny had missed his connection to Prague and the train to wherever the hell he was now, some German-sounding town that didn't seem to be in Germany. Or anywhere elseDanny couldn't even find it online, although he hadn't been sure about the spelling. Talking on the phone to his Cousin Howie, who owned this castle and had paid Danny's way to help out with the renovation, he'd tried to nail down some details. Danny: I'm still trying to get this straightis your hotel in Austria, Germany, or the Czech Republic? Howie: Tell you the truth, I'm not even clear on that myself. Those borders are constantly sliding around. Danny (thinking):They are? Howie: But remember, it's not a hotel yet. Right now it's just an old The line went dead. When Danny tried calling back, he couldn't get through. But his tickets came the next week (blurry postmark)plane, train, busand seeing how he was newly unemployed and had to get out of New York fast because of a misunderstanding at the restaurant where he'd worked, getting paid to go somewhere elseanywhere else, even the fucking moonwas not a thing Danny could say no to. He was fifteen hours late. He left his Samsonite and satellite dish by the gate and circled the left tower (Danny made a point of going left when he had the choice because most people went right). A wall curved away from the tower into the trees, and Danny followed that wall until woods closed in around him. He was moving blind. He heard flapping and scuttling, and as he walked the trees got closer and closer to the wall until finally he was squeezing in between them, afraid if he lost contact with the wall he'd get lost. And then a good thing happened: the trees pushed right through the wall and split it open and gave Danny a way to climb inside. This wasn't easy. The wall was twenty feet high, jagged and
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 prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
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 prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
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 prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation. From the Trade Paperback edition.
From National Book Award finalist Egan comes a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape.
"Dazzling. . . . Prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving." Madison Smartt Bell,The New York Times Book Review "Daring. . . . Irresistibly suspenseful." The Los Angeles Times "The events that transpire are so surprising and provocative, the humor so wry, the sheer pleasure of readingThe Keepso great, one instantly feels impelled to read it again. . . . Satirically sublime." Chicago Tribune "Roiling and captivating. . . . As you finish this novel, part horror tale, part mystery, part romance, the mind lingers over it, amazed by how vivid Egan has made it, how witty, how disturbing, how credible, and yet how utterly fantastic." O, The Oprah Magazine "This neo-gothic tale conjures a wicked form of therapy for BlackBerry-addicted urbanites. . . . Egan's clever scenario presents Danny's mental liberation as both thrilling and dangerousimagination is the ultimate drug, she suggestsand the novel luxuriates in Wilkie Collinsstyle atmospherics." The New Yorker "Egan is an exceptionally intelligent writer whose joy at appropriating and subverting genres and clichesfrom prison memoir to Gothic ghost storyis evident on every dizzyingly inventive page." The Washington Post "[A] remarkable piece of work. . . . Egan effectively echoes the works of Gothic writers such as Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho) and Horace Walpole (Castle of Otranto), fusing a seemingly moribund genre with elements borrowed from the metafictions of John Barth, Italo Calvino and others. It's tricky; but it's a trick only a terrifically talented writer could pull off." San Francisco Chronicle "If Kafka's Joseph K. and Lewis Carroll's Alice had a son, he would have to be Jennifer Egan's Danny. . . . No matter how many symbols and zany subplots she juggles . . . the novelist keeps the action moving and the irony biting." Boston Sunday Globe "Intelligent, intense and remarkably intuitive. . . . Jennifer Egan gives us the satisfying thunk of a fully understood if unexpected, kind of sense." Nan Goldberg,The New York Observer "It's precisely Egan's talent for tapping into the American subconsciouswith deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technologydriven, imagesaturated culturethat has established the author and journalist as a prescient literary voice." Vogue "Jennifer Egan spins a haunting tale. . . . Egan's brilliance is in balancing the deliciously creepy elements of gothiccastle novels with the deadon realism of a prisoner's life, to create a book worth keeping." Elissa Schappell,Vanity Fair "Egan's third novel . . . is a strange, clever, and always compelling meditation on the relationship between the imagination and the captivities (psychological, metaphysical, and even physical) of modern life." The Atlantic Monthly "Visionary . . . at once hyperrealistic and darkly dreamed. . . . With Egan's powers of invention running at full tilt,The Keepreads like a twenty-first-century mash-up of Kafka, Calvino, and Poe, in which the absurd meets the surreal meet the unspeakableto edgy, entertaining effect." Lisa Shea,Elle "The Keepis an exampl
"Dazzling. . . . Prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving." Madison Smartt Bell,The New York Times Book Review "Daring. . . . Irresistibly suspenseful." The Los Angeles Times "The events that transpire are so surprising and provocative, the humor so wry, the sheer pleasure of readingThe Keepso great, one instantly feels impelled to read it again. . . . Satirically sublime." Chicago Tribune "Roiling and captivating. . . . As you finish this novel, part horror tale, part mystery, part romance, the mind lingers over it, amazed by how vivid Egan has made it, how witty, how disturbing, how credible, and yet how utterly fantastic." O, The Oprah Magazine "This neo-gothic tale conjures a wicked form of therapy for BlackBerry-addicted urbanites. . . . Egan's clever scenario presents Danny's mental liberation as both thrilling and dangerousimagination is the ultimate drug, she suggestsand the novel luxuriates in Wilkie Collinsstyle atmospherics." The New Yorker "Egan is an exceptionally intelligent writer whose joy at appropriating and subverting genres and clichesfrom prison memoir to Gothic ghost storyis evident on every dizzyingly inventive page." The Washington Post "[A] remarkable piece of work. . . . Egan effectively echoes the works of Gothic writers such as Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho) and Horace Walpole (Castle of Otranto), fusing a seemingly moribund genre with elements borrowed from the metafictions of John Barth, Italo Calvino and others. It's tricky; but it's a trick only a terrifically talented writer could pull off." San Francisco Chronicle "If Kafka's Joseph K. and Lewis Carroll's Alice had a son, he would have to be Jennifer Egan's Danny. . . . No matter how many symbols and zany subplots she juggles . . . the novelist keeps the action moving and the irony biting." Boston Sunday Globe "Intelligent, intense and remarkably intuitive. . . . Jennifer Egan gives us the satisfying thunk of a fully understood if unexpected, kind of sense." Nan Goldberg,The New York Observer "It's precisely Egan's talent for tapping into the American subconsciouswith deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technologydriven, imagesaturated culturethat has established the author and journalist as a prescient literary voice." Vogue "Jennifer Egan spins a haunting tale. . . . Egan's brilliance is in balancing the deliciously creepy elements of gothiccastle novels with the deadon realism of a prisoner's life, to create a book worth keeping." Elissa Schappell,Vanity Fair "Egan's third novel . . . is a strange, clever, and always compelling meditation on the relationship between the imagination and the captivities (psychological, metaphysical, and even physical) of modern life." The Atlantic Monthly "Visionary . . . at once hyperrealistic and darkly dreamed. . . . With Egan's powers of invention running at full tilt,The Keepreads like a twenty-first-century mash-up of Kafka, Calvino, and Poe, in which the absurd meets the surreal meet the unspeakableto edgy, entertaining effect." Lisa Shea,Elle "The Keepis an exampl
"Dazzling. . . . Prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving."Madison Smartt Bell, The New York Times Book Review"Daring. . . . Irresistibly suspenseful." The Los Angeles Times"The events that transpire are so surprising and provocative, the humor so wry, the sheer pleasure of reading The Keep so great, one instantly feels impelled to read it again. . . . Satirically sublime." Chicago Tribune "Roiling and captivating. . . . As you finish this novel, part horror tale, part mystery, part romance, the mind lingers over it, amazed by how vivid Egan has made it, how witty, how disturbing, how credible, and yet how utterly fantastic." O, The Oprah Magazine"This neo-gothic tale conjures a wicked form of therapy for BlackBerry-addicted urbanites. . . . Egan's clever scenario presents Danny's mental liberation as both thrilling and dangerousimagination is the ultimate drug, she suggestsand the novel luxuriates in Wilkie Collinsstyle atmospherics." The New Yorker"Egan is an exceptionally intelligent writer whose joy at appropriating and subverting genres and clichesfrom prison memoir to Gothic ghost storyis evident on every dizzyingly inventive page." The Washington Post"[A] remarkable piece of work. . . . Egan effectively echoes the works of Gothic writers such as Ann Radcliffe ( The Mysteries of Udolpho) and Horace Walpole ( Castle of Otranto), fusing a seemingly moribund genre with elements borrowed from the metafictions of John Barth, Italo Calvino and others. It''s tricky; but it's a trick only a terrifically talented writer could pull off." San Francisco Chronicle"If Kafka''s Joseph K. and Lewis Carroll's Alice had a son, he would have to be Jennifer Egan's Danny. . . . No matter how many symbols and zany subplots she juggles . . . the novelist keeps the action moving and the irony biting." Boston Sunday Globe"Intelligent, intense and remarkably intuitive. . . . Jennifer Egan gives us the satisfying thunk of a fully understood if unexpected, kind of sense."Nan Goldberg, The New York Observer"It's precisely Egan's talent for tapping into the American subconsciouswith deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technologydriven, imagesaturated culturethat has established the author and journalist as a prescient literary voice." Vogue"Jennifer Egan spins a haunting tale. . . . Egan's brilliance is in balancing the deliciously creepy elements of gothiccastle novels with the deadon realism of a prisoner's life, to create a book worth keeping."Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair"Egan's third novel . . . is a strange, clever, and always compelling meditation on the relationship between the imagination and the captivities (psychological, metaphysical, and even physical) of modern life." The Atlantic Monthly"Visionary . . . at once hyperrealistic and darkly dreamed. . . . With Egan's powers of invention running at full tilt, The Keep reads like a twenty-first-century mash-up of Kafka, Calvino, and Poe, in which the absurd meets the surreal meet the unspeakableto edgy, entertaining effect."Lisa Shea, Elle" The Keep is an example of literature responding to current events not with a mirror but an artful mindfuck." David Bahr, Time Out New York"With The Keep, Egan breaks the mold from page one. Her muscular, lively prose achieves a haunting effect. . . . [The book] maintains a frightening, vertiginous velocity. . . . And the immersion in these high-stakes psychological tightrope acts gives The Keep a page-turning horror. . . . Outstanding." The Onion"Egan gets everything rightfrom the convolutions of the strung-out male mind to the self-deceptions of a drug addictand her skill will keep you marveling at the pages that you can't help turning." People"Like an old spirit who refuses to go away, this is one fantasy that haunts long after its physical end." The Boston Phoenix"Egan is both a captivating storyteller and an incisive social observer. . . . The events that transpire are so surprising and provocative, the humor so wry, the sheer pleasure of reading The Keep so great, one instantly feels impelled to read it again, an impulse that is grandly rewarded, so masterful is Egan's foreshadowing, so nuanced and mysterious is the story. Gothic and chthonic, The Keep is satirically sublime." The Chicago Tribune"Arresting . . . insightful and often funny, so fluid that you actually have the sensation of sinking into these lives . . . strange and beautifully drawn, a place well worth visiting."Susan Kelly, USA Today"Dazzling . . . a metafictional tour de force . . . it draws us in with its compelling realism as surely as anything by Dickens or Balzacnot to mention Henry James, who understood better than anyone how to turn the screw." Chicago Sun-Times"Steeped in Gothic mystery and plugged into our wired, uptotheminute cultures, The Keep is a hypnotic tale of unexpected connections between isolated people, each concealing secrets that ultimately upend how we see them. . . . Though dark with betrayal and violence (both psychological and literal), The Keep ultimately reveals itself to be a love letter to the creative impulse." Newsday" The Keep is a novel of ideas." Poets & Writers"An engrossing narrative told in prose that's remarkably fresh and inventive." Library Journal"Atmospheric and tense, this is a mesmerizing story." Booklist"Jennifer Egan is a contemporary American storyteller in the vein of Stephen King or The Sopranos scriptwriters. Her latest novel, a slightly gothic tale of love and the (possibly) supernatural, is a pleasure to read. . . . Egan's eye and ear for contemporary America places the whole saga too close to home for fantasy."Emily Carter Roiphe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune"A dark and fascinating journey. . . . Egan skillfully builds the tension to a tipping point, culminating in an explosion. . . . The complicated plot comes together seamlessly, marvelously. . . . It's a novel that engages and haunts the reader, a psychological who'swho, whodunwhat and howdotheygoon. The Keep is a fast an furious read, a perfect summer novel." Rocky Mountain News"Egan . . . makes it all work. How she weaves the story of these four people togetherand the unexpected links between themis fascinating." The Oregonian"The book itself is a stronghold of imaginative story telling, the last stand of the Gothic novel." The Philadelphia Inquirer"Exhilarating . . . Context and borders shift and dissolve, and the reader experiences the precise frisson the gloomy genre of Gothic is meant to convey: the wonder, the terror and the trapped chill of fear that resolves in a mind-expanding realization of the dimensions within your own head. In a word: sublime."Linda Marotta, Fangoria"Part gothic romance, part ghost story, and peppered with Egan's startling insights into the role of communication and loneliness in contemporary life, this is one brainy page-turne
ForThe Keep "Jennifer Egan is a refreshingly unclassifiable novelist. . . . Egan sustains an awareness that the text is being manipulated by its author, while at the same time delivering character and story with perfect and passionate conviction. Very few writers, in our time or any other, have been able to bring that off . . . the dazzling presentation makes us believe that it really is a matter of life, death and salvation. . . . The result is a work both prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving." Madison Smartt Bell,The New York Times Book Review "Intelligent, challenging and exciting. . . . The characters' emotions are so real, the author's insights so moving that readers will be happy to be swept away." Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "This neo-gothic tale conjures a wicked form of therapy for BlackBerry-addicted urbanites. . . . Egan's clever scenario presents Danny's mental liberation as both thrilling and dangerousimagination is the ultimate drug, she suggestsand the novel luxuriates in Wilkie Collinsstyle atmospherics." The New Yorker "A novel as daring as Jennifer Egan'sThe Keepmakes us think hard about one of the murkiest mysteries of all: the mystery of perception, that uncertain border where reality and imagination meet . . . irresistibly suspenseful. . . . A novel likeThe Keepshows us what it's like to live outside of today's categories and to exist in unreal situations, in dreams, in confusion, in the experiences of others." Joanna Scott,The Los Angeles Times "Egan is an exceptionally intelligent writer whose joy at appropriating and subverting genres and clichesfrom prison memoir to Gothic ghost storyis evident on every dizzyingly inventive page." The Washington Post "[A] remarkable piece of work. . . . Egan effectively echoes the works of Gothic writers such as Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho) and Horace Walpole (Castle of Otranto), fusing a seemingly moribund genre with elements borrowed from the metafictions of John Barth, Italo Calvino and others. It's tricky; but it's a trick only a terrifically talented writer could pull off." San Francisco Chronicle "If Kafka's Joseph K. and Lewis Carroll's Alice had a son, he would have to be Jennifer Egan's Danny. . . . No matter how many symbols and zany subplots she juggles . . . the novelist keeps the action moving and the irony biting." Boston Sunday Globe "Intelligent, intense and remarkably intuitive. . . . Jennifer Egan gives us the satisfying thunk of a fully understood if unexpected, kind of sense." Nan Goldberg,The New York Observer "It's precisely Egan's talent for tapping into the American subconsciouswith deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technologydriven, imagesaturated culturethat has established the author and journalist as a prescient literary voice." Vogue "Jennifer Egan spins a haunting tale. . . . Egan's brilliance is in balancing the deliciously creepy elements of gothiccastle novels with the deadon realism of a prisoner's life, to create a book worth keeping." Elissa Schappell,Vanity Fair "Egan's third novel . . . is a strange, clever, and always compelling meditation on the relationship between the imagination and the

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저자(글) Egan, Jennifer

2011년 시사주간지 <타임>이 발표한 ‘전 세계에서 가장 영향력 있는 인물 100인’에 선정된 세 명의 소설가 중 하나다. 1962년 시카고에서 태어나 샌프란시스코에서 성장했다. 펜실베이니아대학과 영국 케임브리지의 세인트존 칼리지에서 영문학을 공부했으며, 1989년 <뉴요커>에 실린 「스타일리스트」를 비롯한 다수의 단편소설로 주목받기 시작했다. 1995년 첫 장편소설 『인비저블 서커스』를, 1996년 소설집 『에메랄드 시티』를 발표했다. 2001년 9·11 테러 직후 출간한 『나를 봐』로 전미도서상 최종 후보에 올랐다. 2006년 출간한 『킵』은 큰 호평을 받으며 고딕소설의 새로운 고전 반열에 올랐고 <뉴욕 타임스>, <샌프란시스코 크로니클> ‘주목할 만한 책’에 선정되었다. 2010년 발표한 장편소설 『깡패단의 방문』은 <뉴욕 타임스>, <워싱턴 포스트>, <퍼블리셔스 위클리>, <타임>, <샌프란시스코 크로니클>, <시카고 트리뷴>, <오프라 매거진> 등 주요 매체에서 그해 최고의 소설로 꼽히며 찬사를 받았고, 퓰리처상, 전미비평가협회상, LA 타임스 도서상 수상의 영예를 안았으며 펜/포크너상 최종 후보에 올랐다. 2012년 <뉴요커>의 트위터 계정을 통해 SF 스파이 스릴러 「블랙박스」를 연재했다. 2018년부터 펜아메리카 회장을 맡고 있다. 2017년 발표한 다섯번째 장편소설 『맨해튼 비치』는 <뉴욕 타임스> 베스트셀러, 전미도서상 픽션 부문 후보에 올랐고 앤드루 카네기 메달을 수상했다. <뉴욕 타임스>, <워싱턴 포스트> 선정 ‘주목할 만한 책’, <파이낸셜 타임스>, <샌프란시스코 크로니클>, <가디언>, <타임>, <보그>, <에스콰이어>, <커커스 리뷰>, <필라델피아 인콰이어러> NPR 선정 ‘올해 최고의 책’에 이름을 올렸고, 매년 뉴욕 공립도서관 주관하에 함께 읽고 싶은 한 권의 책을 결정하는 “One Book, One New York” 캠페인에서 2018년 뉴욕 시민들의 가장 많은 지지를 얻으며 1위로 선정되었다. 또한 영화 <노인을 위한 나라는 없다>, <레이디 버드>, <소셜 네트워크>, <트루먼 쇼> 등을 성공시킨 프로듀서 스콧 루딘이 판권을 획득해 영화로도 제작될 예정이다.

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ISBN	9781400079742 ( 1400079748 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 07월 10일
쪽수	272쪽
크기	134 * 201 * 22 mm / 290 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어