Visit from the Goon Squad - Softcover

Egan, Jennifer

3.69

226,499 ratings by Goodreads

9780307948359: Visit from the Goon Squad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307948358 ISBN 13: 9780307948359

Publisher: Random House USA, 2011

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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award!

From the award-winning and bestselling author Jennifer Egan, a dazzling, shape-shifting new work of fiction that spans fifty years and stars an aging record executive and the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.

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.

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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

“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

“If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead.”
―The Washington Post

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[ { By Egan, Jennifer ( Author ) A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD Mar-22-2011 Paperback } ]

Review:

A must read. Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality. (Sunday Times.)

It may be the smartest book you can get your hands on this summer. (Los Angeles Times)

Exhilirating...arresting...brilliant. Turn up the music...and curl up with The Goon Squad. (Washington Post)

A great work of fiction, a profound and glorious exploration of the fullness and complexity of the human condition. . . . An extraordinary new work of fiction.

(The New York Press)

Egan's precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure. (Daily Telegraph.)

A delight. (The Observer.)

A Visit from the Goon Squad [is] an exhilarating, big-hearted, three-headed beast of a story. . . . [A] genius as a writer. . . . We see ourselves in all of Egan's characters because their stories of heartbreak and redemption seem so real they could be our own, regardless of the soundtrack. Such is the stuff great novels are made of. (Marie-Claire)

Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking. . . . It 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)

A rich and rewarding novel. (Philadelphia Inquierer)

"[Egan is] a boldly intellectual writer who is not afraid to apply her equally powerful intuitive skills to her ambitious projects. . . . While it's a time-trekking, tech-freakin' doozie, the characters' lives and fates claim the story first and foremost, and we are pulled right in. . . . Brilliantly structured, with storylike chapters." (Elle)

Jennifer Egan is a rare bird: an experimental writer with a deep commitment to character, whose fiction is at once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . It's a tricky book, but in the best way. When I got to the end, I wanted to start from the top again immediately, both to revisit the characters and to understand better how the pieces fit together. Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay. (The San Francisco Chronicle)

The star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre bending new school is alive and well in this graceful yet wild novel . . . powerful. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

Sparkling. (The Guardian)

Egan is a writer of cunning subtlety, embedding within the risky endeavors of seductively complicated characters a curious bending of time . . . a hilarious melancholy, enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a novel. (Donna Seaman Booklist (starred review))

Poetry and pathos . . . Egan conveys personality so swiftly and with such empathy. . . . Yet she is not a conventional dystopian novelist; distinctions between the virtual and the real may be breaking down in this world, but her characters have recognizable emotions and convictions, which is why their compromises and uncertainties continue to move us. . . . Another ambitious change of pace from talented and visionary Egan, who reinvents the novel for the 21st century while affirming its historic values. (Kirkus Review (starred review))

For all its postmodern flourishes, Goon Squad is as traditional as a Dickens novel. . . . Her aim is not so much to explode traditional storytelling as to explore how it responds to the pressures and opportunities of the digital age. Egan herself does not appear to be on Facebook, but A Visit From the Goon Squad will likely make her many new friends. (Newsweek)

A stunningly resourceful writer (Guardian)

Egan's a daunting stylist, and she's in blistering form for these interlocking narratives about the milieu surrounding an aging and waning music producer. Essentially, it's a story about getting mugged by the passage of time, and along the way she interrogates how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, and lifelong friendships fluctuate. You also might know this as the novel that has a chapter written in PowerPoint. Egan: unpredictable and, here, brilliant. (Publisher's Weekly Books of the Year.)

Thriftily evokes many disparate American lives in less than 300 pages, vividly showing how the virtues of the realist tradition - historical depth and strong point of view - can be combined with a modernist aesthetic of fragmentation and dissolution. (Pankaj Mishra Guardian)

An overlooked masterpiece. (thisislondon.com)

If you're going to read one new novel this summer, it should be this. (Evening Standard)

Warm, witty and wise. (Sunday Express)

Wickedly funny. (Harper's Bazaar)

Stunningly good. (Evening Standard)

Stories that defy narrative conventions. (Financial Times)

Dazzling. (Irish Times)

Fiction of the highest quality. (The Sunday Times)

The coolest of summer's must-reads. (The Lady)

The most exciting novel I've read this year. (Olivia Laing, Observer)

You won't have read anything quite like it before. (Grazia)

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