She married at 21, has scarcely ever held a job and, by her telling, seems to have spent her adult life in a Proustian attitude, writing for hours each day from her desk-bed. 她21岁就结了婚,几乎没有工作过。按她自己的描述,她成年后的生活方式就像普鲁斯特,每天在她的桌&床上写好几个小时。
Egan's Proustian meditation on time, fame and music won the National Book Critics Circle and Pulitzer awards. 伊根对时间、声誉和音乐进行的普鲁斯特式思考成就了此书,并因此荣获美国国家书评人奖和普利策奖。