A Visit from the Goon Squad

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).

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

Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780307477477


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/25/2011 pg. 83
Entertainment Weekly 04/01/2011 pg. 80
People Weekly 04/11/2011 pg. 57
New York Times Book Review 04/03/2011 pg. 28
Christian Century 10/18/2011 pg. 51
People Weekly 07/15/2013 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 07/04/2014 pg. 55

About the Author

Jennifer Egan is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus; and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.