Emerald City by Jennifer Egan

Author:Jennifer Egan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307765192
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-09-28T20:00:00+00:00

James and Diana’s friendship with Sonny had had its perfect moment twenty years before, in the early seventies, when Diana wore short polyester dresses and thick pale lipstick. Sonny would squire them from one Chicago nightclub to the next, and each time they went inside she felt they were expected, that the party could really begin now that they had arrived. In pictures from those days James and Sonny looked surprisingly big-eared and eager. They were typewriter salesmen for IBM, and had started a side business marketing inventions—a solar bicycle, aerosol tanning lotion—that failed one by one and left them nearly bankrupt. In the end James quit and went to law school; Sonny later cashed in on fast-food investments he’d had the prescience to make early on. But in those first days they’d been convinced success was imminent, and would wedge fat cigars between their teeth and talk about the good life. Diana pictured it coming suddenly and with violence, a shock that would leave them reeling. But like so many things, success took longer than they thought to arrive, and by the time it came, it merely seemed their due.

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