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A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan. Knopf

A‘70s punk band becomes the touchstone for a motley crew who spin their interconnected stories over time and distance.

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer egan, . . knopf, $24.95 (273pp) isbn 978-0-307-59283-5.

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010 Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Jennifer Egan's latest novel THE CANDY HOUSE is coming April 2022, the long-awaited sibling novel to A Visit from the Goon Squad ***

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"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" "A new classic of American fiction." --"Time" "Audacious, extraordinary." --"Philadelphia Inquirer" "A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan's extreme virtuosity." --"The New York Times" "Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology." --"O, The Oprah Magazine" "The smartest book you can get your hands on." --"Los Angeles Times" "A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talen

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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TTHKH4
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corsair; First Edition (March 24, 2011)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2011
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 567 MB
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• Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
• #2,253 in Classic Literary Fiction
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Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago, where her paternal grandfather was a police commander and bodyguard for President Truman during his visits to that city. She was raised in San Francisco and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John’s College, Cambridge, in England. In those student years she did a lot of traveling, often with a backpack: China, the former USSR, Japan, much of Europe, and those travels became the basis for her first novel, The Invisible Circus, and her story collection, Emerald City. She came to New York in 1987 and worked an array of wacky jobs while learning to write: catering at the World Trade Center; joining the word processing pool at a midtown law firm; serving as the private secretary for the Countess of Romanones, an OSS spy-turned-Spanish countess (by marriage), who wrote a series of bestsellers about her spying experiences and famous friends.

Egan has published short stories in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta and McSweeney's. Her first novel, The Invisible Circus, came out in 1995 and was released as a movie starring Cameron Diaz in 2001. Her second novel, Look at Me, was a National Book Award Finalist in 2001, and her third, The Keep, was a national bestseller. Also a journalist, Egan has written many cover stories for the New York Times Magazine on topics ranging from young fashion models to the secret online lives of closeted gay teens. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her 2008 story on bipolar children won an Outstanding Media Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

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• Full Title: A Visit From the Goon Squad
• When Written: Between 2006 and 2010
• Where Written: New York City, NY
• When Published: June 8, 2010
• Literary Period: Contemporary Literature
• Genre: Literary Fiction, Contemporary Novel
• Setting: Most of the stories take place in and around New York City, although some stories are set in California, Italy, and Kenya
• Point of View: A blend of first, second, third, and other non-traditional points of view

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Writing Process. Egan always writes the first drafts of her work longhand on a legal pad. Often, she will write the second draft the same way. She saves a version of each and every draft she writes.

Strange Connections. As an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Egan dated Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. Egan met Jobs at a dinner party in Silicon Valley, and a bicoastal relationship ensued. One time, during their relationship, Jobs showed up at Egan’s door with a brand new Macintosh computer and installed it for her.

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A brilliant investigation into Jennifer Egan’s modern classic, exploring how A Visit from the Goon Squad uses both the novel and the pop song as forms of elegy. Ivan Kreilkamp is a music critic as well as a literary scholar, versed in both Middlemarch and Minor Threat, so he brings revelatory insight into Egan’s punk-inspired story of time lost and time regained. Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

Clear-eyed and sure-footed, Kreilkamp tracks the Goon Squad down. A passionately informed reader of both American rock and British fiction, he knows how to reread Egan, knows where to find all the scars on the wrecked bodies, knows about the losses—political, existential, aesthetic—that they mark, knows about the digitally compressed arts that we once shored against our ruin. His meditation is a worthy companion to the novel itself, a testament to the surviving power of song and story. Jed Esty, author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development

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Kreilkamp’s lucid reading offers a refreshingly unapologetic appreciation of an important recent novel. This timely and engaging book argues that Goon Squad poses fiction as uniquely capable of grasping the experience of time, and thus as necessary as ever in a contemporary moment dominated by the digital and the visual. Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace

A creative and thoughtful account of Jennifer Egan’s 2010 novel . . . a very timely reflection upon A Visit from the Goon Squad , bringing Egan’s narrative skill and cultural commentary to our attention over a decade after the novel’s first publication. Contemporary Women's Writing

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