A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

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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).

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
June 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
40.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Auggie's Man ,

Amazing writing and characters

Loved this book. As I typically read at bedtime it took a lot to put it aside and actually get sleep!

DesignGirl80 ,

Goon Squad

Enjoyed it. A worthwhile read. Good character development.

Lgudbdkdi ,

What happened?

The beginning of this book reads interesting enough, but as soon as I started to get excited about the characters introduced the author seems to get confused - or at least she confused me! I spent more energy trying to keep up with who was who and who was where & when that I became exasperated! What was the point? Time travel? New technology? A look into the future? What happened to the story? And why did this win a Pulitzer? Oh that's right, the chapter written in power point. Other than that quirky chapter, I didn't find it a very novel novel. (pun intended)

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