A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 8, 2010 - Fiction - 288 pages
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

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

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
30
Section 4
45
Section 5
64
Section 6
70
Section 7
85
Section 8
104
Section 11
157
Section 12
184
Section 13
185
Section 14
187
Section 15
212
Section 16
213
Section 17
234
Section 18
252

Section 9
125
Section 10
140
Section 19
277
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About the author (2010)

Jennifer Egan is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon Squad,�The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus;�and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.

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