A Visit from the Goon Squad

ISBN-13:	9781780330969
Publisher:	Constable & Robinson
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionOne of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2010One 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 VoiceBennie 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.