A Visit From the Goon Squad: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION by Jennifer Egan (TV adaptation soon)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A brilliantly entertaining novel about memory, time, art and how humans connect at every level.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie 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.

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 many places.

With music pulsing on every page, this is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writers.

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

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corsair; 1st edition (9 Jun. 2011)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780330960

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780330969

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm