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A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Paperback, 2011)

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Get lost in the captivating world of Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. This 368-page paperback book follows the intertwined lives of various characters in the music industry, exploring themes of time, memory, and the fallibility of human relationships. Published by Little, Brown Book Group in 2011, this book has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. This edition has an item weight of 298g, item dimensions of 150mm x 198mm x 23mm, and an ISBN-10 of 1780330960. Perfect for fans of contemporary fiction, this book is a must-read for anyone looking for a poignant and thought-provoking story.

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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing 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-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.

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Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9781780330969
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Book Title
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author
Jennifer Egan
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
150mm
Item Weight
298g

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Jennifer Egan
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United Kingdom

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by kpr222129 Apr, 2024
Great interesting read, as described, thanks
Great interesting read, as described, thanks
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