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Emerald City

Jennifer Egan

2002169 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2002
first published
  • 1993Picador · 169 pages · ENGISBN 9780330321167
  • 1995Picador · 169 pages · ENGISBN 9780330335089
  • 1996N.A. Talese · 178 pages · ENGISBN 9780385482127
  • 2012Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9781780331218
  • 2012Blackstone AudiobooksISBN 9780792789611
  • 2020ROBERT LAFFONT · 252 pagesISBN 9782221216279
  • 1997Picador · 192 pagesISBN 9780312151188
  • 2007Anchor · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780307387530

Eleven stories on the vagaries of life. In Why China? a successful stockbroker yearns for the days when he was poor, in Passing the Hat, a wife observing a woman sleep around with men, is shocked to discover her own husband was one of them, while The Watch Trick compares the lives of two army friends, one who settled down, the other who didn't. By the author of The Invisible Circus.

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead
CommitmentQuick escape

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Reading situationCommuteWaiting
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