A Visit from the Goon Squad
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2010Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of...
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One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2010Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly fifty years. A Visit from the Goon Squad is about time, about survival, about our private terrors, and what happens when we fail to rebound.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780307592835
Publish date: 08-06-2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Enjoyed this for a lot of reasons. I actually need some of the other scenes from the stories to be continued. I NEED to know what happened to Rolph, and how Steph confronted Bennie. Proper review to come.
this is the first american novel i have read in quite some time. and to be honest at first i was distracted by this fact. The first few chapters that take place in nyc are on streets i have walked on many, many times and might have done so at the exact time the characters were doing so. so there was...
I make it a point to try and read all the books that win the Pulitzer prize. If this book deserved it then I am a purple duck-billed platypus.It's not that this book is terrible. In fact, I must say this book is unique. The story is told out of chronological order and there is an entire chapter of c...
a bit erratic in how it captured my attention. i would read slowly enjoying each word for a couple of paragraphs then skimmed the rest of chapter. the timeline jump rather disoriented me as well.
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