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|title=The Invisible Circus
|sort=Invisible Circus
|publisher=Corsair
|date=April 2012
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331223</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>B005RZB6Q0</amazonus>
|website=http://jenniferegan.com/
|video=
|summary=A re-issue of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jennifer Egan's debut novel tells the story of a young girls seeking to explore the death of her older sister. Set in the late 1970s it explores the differences in value of the previous generation but after a stunning opening, rather loses its punch and charm.
|cover=1780331223
|aznuk=1780331223
|aznus=B005RZB6Q0
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Set in 1978, 18-year old Phoebe is living with her mother in San Francisco. Her father died some years ago, before her elder sister, Faith, a charismatic idealist and true child of the 1960s left for Europe where she died in 1970. Faith was always her father's favourite, While Phoebe's older brother, Barry, is now a computer millionaire, on leaving high school Phoebe decides on a whim to follow her sister's path to Europe in the hope of finding what happened in Italy and to finally understand her beloved sister's actions.