Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“I’m done. I’m old, I’m sad—that’s on a good day. I want out of this mess. But I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away—I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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 past, 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 Kenya.
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 and more, 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.
Read Alikes for A Visit from the Goon Squad: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman; The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas; How It All began by Penelope Lively; The Candy House by Jennifer Egan; Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart; American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“I’m done. I’m old, I’m sad—that’s on a good day. I want out of this mess. But I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away—I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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 past, 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 Kenya.
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 and more, 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.
Read Alikes for A Visit from the Goon Squad: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman; The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas; How It All began by Penelope Lively; The Candy House by Jennifer Egan; Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart; American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor
ISBN 978-0-307-59283-5
Jennifer Egan
2010
