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A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Jennifer Egan・・Ended

Updated: June 3, 2010

Content length: 367 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “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). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years 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. “Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”—The New York Times Book Review

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📚 Why We Recommend It

Time is a petty thief. It erodes the snarls on old cassettes, turns guitar-smashing punks into men sighing over spreadsheets, yet slips a faded concert stub into your pocket on a rainy night—a key to the hottest, loudest room in your memory.

You’ll see yourself in them—the unspoken apologies, the missed chances, the midnight wonder: What if I’d turned left? But Egan’s magic lies in showing that “ruin” is never the end. It’s the scratch on a cassette that makes the song feel like a secret, the way Bennie playing old tracks for nursing home residents becomes a kind of prayer, or Sasha finally meeting the eyes of the things she’s stolen. Time, that goon, always leaves a crack for redemption.

This isn’t a book about “winning.” It’s a book about living—with all the mess, the regrets, and the quiet, stubborn light folded into the creases.