Tuesday, April 5, 2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

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

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2010

One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village Voice

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.

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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published June 8th 2010 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (first published 2010)

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