A visit from the Goon Squad / Jennifer Egan.
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307477477
- ISBN: 0307477479
- Physical Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Anchor Books, 2011, ©2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Found objects -- The gold cure -- Ask me if I care -- Safari -- You (plural) -- X's and O's -- A to B -- Selling the general -- Forty-minute lunch : Kitty Jackson opens up about love, fame, and Nixon! -- Out of body -- Good-by, my love -- Great rock and roll pauses -- Pure language |
Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2010. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2011. |
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Subject: | Punk rock musicians > Fiction. Sound recording executives and producers > Fiction. Older men > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Genre: | Romans (teksten) Psychological fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION EGAN (Text) | 50686013878314 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
Valley Community Library | FICTION EGAN (Text) | 50690111305055 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.