A Visit From the Goon Squad
$22.83
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2011
Summary
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780330969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780330960 |
| Author: | Jennifer Egan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 150mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
A must read. Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality. - Sunday Times.
It may be the smartest book you can get your hands on this summer. - Los Angeles Times
Exhilirating…arresting…brilliant. Turn up the music…and curl up with The Goon Squad. - Washington Post
A great work of fiction, a profound and glorious exploration of the fullness and complexity of the human condition… . An extraordinary new work of fiction.
- The New York Press
Egan’s precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure. - Daily Telegraph.
A delight. - The Observer.
A Visit from the Goon Squad [is] an exhilarating, big-hearted, three-headed beast of a story… . [A] genius as a writer… . We see ourselves in all of Egan’s characters because their stories of heartbreak and redemption seem so real they could be our own, regardless of the soundtrack. Such is the stuff great novels are made of. - Marie-Claire
Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking… . It 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
About The Author
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of The 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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