by Jennifer Egan · Minúscula · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495587831
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In the midst of a midlife crisis, Bennie Salazar, a former member of a seventies punk band and now a record industry executive, seeks to regain his sexual appetite by adding gold flakes to his coffee. His assistant, Sasha, deals with her kleptomania with the help of a peculiar psychoanalyst. Around them, a network of diverse characters intertwines, from a publicist trying to clean up the image of a genocidal general to a journalist imprisoned for abusing a teenage movie star. With rock as a backdrop, 'Time is a Scoundrel' is a fascinating work that takes place in places like New York, San Francisco, Kenya, Naples and the California desert, spanning from the seventies to the year 2020. Jennifer Egan offers an acute look that combines the comic and the tragic, uniting fragments of time and space in a polyphonic and innovative novel that portrays the digital age.
Jennifer Egan 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.
