A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

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. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

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Jennifer Egan is the author of 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.

A "book for the digital age because of settings that span decades, continents, protagonists and a chapter written exclusively in PowerPoint. Egan's use of images, music and technology are as articulate and full of nuances as any of the chapters written in prose.

A wild ride of a novel that is dead on serious about how humanity surges and suffers with its inventions and desires.

A motley crew of characters who have lived through the musical explosion of the Bay Area punk scene look back on their lives and ponder the massive changes they never saw coming.

A powerful, critically acclaimed novel about the effects of digital technology on the punk rock generation.