A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER 2011 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A New York Times Book Review Best Book

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.

“Pitch perfect…. Darkly, rippingly funny….
Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“At once intellectually stimulating and moving….
Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle

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About Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of 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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