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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner
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A Visit from the Goon Squad follows Bennie, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Jennifer Egan intricately weaves their pasts and the lives of various interconnected characters, painting a vivid portrait of self-destruction and redemption with a musical pulse throughout.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is ideal for readers who appreciate literary fiction that explores complex human relationships, the passage of time, and cultural change, especially those who enjoy music-themed narratives with emotional depth.

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With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

A Visit from the Goon Squad introduces Bennie, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here, Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

“Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780307477477

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 March 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 201.0mm

Weight: 346g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Jennifer Egan is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon SquadThe Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus; and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.

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