### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel.
A Visit From the Goon Squad
โ Scribed by Jennifer Egan
- Book ID
- 110615847
- Publisher
- Borzoi Book; Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307593627
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โฆ Synopsis
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Paperback, 341 pages
Published: 2010
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2011)
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction (2010)
Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books)
The Guardian's Best Books Since 2000
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is 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. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village Voice. A New York Times Book Review Best Book
Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2011), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2011), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2010),
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SUMMARY: Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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
SUMMARY: Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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
Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with