Cover of A Visit from the Goon Squad Pulitzer Prize Winner

A Visit from the Goon Squad Pulitzer Prize Winner

by Jennifer Egan

3.4
(25 ratings)
Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) #1368 pages2017Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780307477477

About this book

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER <b>•</b> 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” (<i>The Chicago Tribune</i>)<i>.</i></b><br><br><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century • A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years</b><br><br>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. <br><br><b>“Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>

Publication Details

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2017
Pages
368
ISBN
9780307477477
Language
en

About Jennifer Egan

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