![]() ![]() She seemed to live entirely for the moment, and her recklessness flowed through Phoebe's life like an electrical current. San Francisco in the 1960's was a wild place to grow up in, but Phoebe's older sister, Faith, rose easily to its challenges: Faith plunging into the freezing ocean to distract their dying father Faith on the front page of the newspaper during the Oakland riots Faith on the back of a Hell's Angel's motorcycle. She doesn't smoke, she doesn't have a driver's license, she's still a virgin and she has absolutely no sense of irony - in short, she seems ripe for a summer of transgression and metamorphosis.īut what gives this coming-of-age story its neat, sharp twist is that Phoebe herself has very little interest in coming of age high school is behind her, Berkeley awaits her in the fall, and yet everything of significance - in her own family and in the world at large - seems to have happened in the previous decade. JENNIFER EGAN'S first novel, "The Invisible Circus," opens in June 1978 in San Francisco, where 18-year-old Phoebe O'Connor is living at home with her widowed mother. ![]() ![]() THE INVISIBLE CIRCUSBy Jennifer Egan.338 pp. ![]()
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