A Visit from the Goon Squad
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
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).
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.
“Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
You want a mind-blowing story? Look no further than Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, which examines American culture and the perils of the digital age. A Visit from the Goon Squad is composed of 13 story lines tenuously connected by two characters: a music industry executive and his damaged onetime assistant. The action leaps back and forth through time, from the punk-rock ’70s to the near future. Time itself is the brutal goon here, arbitrarily punishing and rewarding each flawed character—and reminding us of the power we have on one another’s lives, even if we’ve never met. Egan’s empathy and imagination are exquisite: You’ll feel exhausted and exhilarated, as if you’ve lived many lives in a few hours.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In reading this novel of interconnected lives at the fringes of the music industry, Roxana Ortega freights her breathy voice with the moral confusion and sadness of Egan's disaffected, dismayed characters. A surprisingly supple instrument, Ortega's voice can drop to a gruff near-growl, and she craftily uses her range to convey the feeling of the bottom dropping out of the characters' lives. A Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 22).
