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A visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan.

By: Series: Goon Squad. 1 Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.Description: 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780307592835
Subject(s): Awards:
  • Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded General Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction EGA Goon Bk.1 Available 051067
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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.

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

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