A Visit from the Goon Squad
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * 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 New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century * One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years * A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century * A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 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
Egan, Jennifer: -
Jennifer Egan is the author of several books of fiction, including A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Books Critics Circle Award; The Keep, a national bestseller; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, McSweeney's, the New York Times Magazine, and many others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307477477 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307477479 |
| Title | A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| Author | Jennifer Egan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2011, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2011, Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012, Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2010 |
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