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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.
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- Author
- Jennifer Egan
- First published
- August 2006
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Edicions de 1984, BBC Audiobooks America, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- cat, heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781400079742
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Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel *A Visit from the Goon Squad* won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.
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