![]() ![]() Badger loved Chicago, but Chicago did not love Badger. “It was different in Chicago.”įor seven nights running, Badger had yakked his ear off about Chicago’s swell gin joints and incomparable dames and dishy lake above all, the silken accord between Syndicate and Law. “If you want me to smack you, why not just ask.”īadger heaved a sigh. ![]() I’m touching the car by sitting in the car, if you take my meaning. Sure enough, he went on, “It’s just that. “Sorry, boss,” Badger said meekly, but his stubborn, merry eyes told a different story. Or did they not teach you that in Chicago?” “You don’t touch a man’s car without his permission. “What’d you do that for?” Badger groused. and the National Book Critics Circle Award.ĭriving along Eighty-sixth Street in Brooklyn, Dexter Styles saw Badger check his wristwatch and then extend a hairy hand toward the radio dial, presumably to turn on the five-thirty a.m. Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() Opening in Brooklyn during the Great Depression with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan’s first historical novel is a intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. The following is from Jennifer Egan’s novel, Manhattan Beach. ![]()
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