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A Visit from the Goon Squad
(2010)(The first book in the Visit from the Goon Squad series)
A novel by Jennifer Egan
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding new work circles Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the San Francisco 1970s music scene, the demimonde of Naples, New York at many points along the way from the pre-Internet nineties to a postwar future, and on a catastrophic safari into the heart of Africa. We meet Lou, Bennie's charismatic, careless mentor; Scotty, the young musician who slipped off the grid; the uncle facing a failed marriage who goes in search of seventeen-year-old Sasha when she disappears into Italy; and the therapist on whose couch she dissects darker compulsions.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies. Sly, surprising, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies. Sly, surprising, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
ISBN: 1-4458-5982-3 / 978-1-4458-5982-8 (UK edition)
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
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October 2017 : UK Audio edition

Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author(s): Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Availability: Amazon UK
July 2010 : USA Audio CD
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