
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Winner of The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
By: Jennifer Egan
Paperback | 22 March 2011
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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.
About the Author
Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in such magazines as The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. Egan lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.
Industry Reviews
"At once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay." --The San Francisco Chronicle
"A new classic of American fiction." --Time
"Audacious, extraordinary." --Philadelphia Inquirer
"A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan's extreme virtuosity." --The New York Times
"Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"The smartest book you can get your hands on." --Los Angeles Times
"A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talented writers today." --The New York Review of Books
"It ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has changes, including you, the reader." --The New Republic
"Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking. . . . 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
"Egan's bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life." --Vogue
"Told with both affection and intensity, Goon Squad stands as a brilliant, all-absorbing novel for the beach, the woods, the air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your iPod. Stay with this one." --Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"Brilliant, inventive. . . . Emboldening. It cracks the world open afresh. . . . Would that Marcel Proust could receive [a copy]. It would blow his considerable mind. . . . Expect to inhale Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. Then expect it to lodge in your cranium and your breastbone a good long while." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Frequently dazzling. . . . Egan's expert flaying of human foibles has the compulsive allure of poking at a sore tooth: excruciating but exhilarating too." --Entertainment Weekly
"If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead." --The Washington Post
ISBN: 9780307477477
ISBN-10: 0307477479
Published: 22nd March 2011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 368
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: ANCHOR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20 x 13 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.36
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