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Cost: $15.00 ticket or $35.00-Book with ticket (in advance)Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, “a new classic of American fiction” (Time) that follows an aging punk rocker and his young employee. Her other books of fiction include the National Book Award Finalist Look at Me, the bestselling The Keep, The Invisible Circus, and the historical novel Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, among many other publications. Imagined as a “sibling novel” to A Visit From the Goon Squad, Egan’s new novel conjurs a reality only a few advancements away from our own in which technology will allow users to download and share all their memories.
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A book signing will follow the presentation.
Books provided by Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books
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Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, United States