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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Häftad bok.
Nyskick. Penguin Random House USA. 2011. 368 sidor. Oläst. Förlagsny.
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780307477477
- Titel
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Författare
- Jennifer Egan
- Förlag
- Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Omfång
- 340 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 220 mm Ryggbredd 17 mm
- Vikt
- 337 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city's demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
From the Hardcover edition.
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A visit from the goon squad
Häftad bok. London : Corsair. 2011. 349 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Hylla 14
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781780330969
- Titel
- A visit from the goon squad
- Författare
- Egan, Jennifer
- Förlag
- London : Corsair
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Språk
- English
London : Corsair 9781780330969 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780307948359
- Titel
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Författare
- Egan, Jennifer
- Förlag
- Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 105 x 175 mm Ryggbredd 22 mm
- Vikt
- 190 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award!
From the award-winning and bestselling author Jennifer Egan, a dazzling, shape-shifting new work of fiction that spans fifty years and stars an aging record executive and the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.
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.
Läs recension i DN: http://www.dn.se/dnbok/bokrecensioner/jennifer-egan-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad
“Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan’s extreme virtuosity.”
—The New York Times
“Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead.”
—The Washington Post
Random House USA 9780307948359 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781849019910
- Titel
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Författare
- Jennifer Egan
- Förlag
- Tiptree Book Service
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Omfång
- 351 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 111 x 178 mm Ryggbredd 23 mm
- Vikt
- 182 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house - and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang - who thrived and who faltered - and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and, the universal tendency to reach for both - and escape the merciless progress of time - in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Tiptree Book Service 9781849019910 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781849019910
- Titel
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Författare
- Jennifer Egan
- Förlag
- Tiptree Book Service
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Omfång
- 351 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 111 x 178 mm Ryggbredd 23 mm
- Vikt
- 182 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house - and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang - who thrived and who faltered - and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and, the universal tendency to reach for both - and escape the merciless progress of time - in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Corsair 9781849019910 -
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Pocketbok. Anchor Books / Random House USA. 2011. 382 sidor.
Nära nyskick. ENGELSK TEXT. Format 17,5 x 10,5 cm Vikt 195 g.
Pocketbok med mjuka pärmar. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. The book is a set of thirteen interrelated stories with a large set läs mer … läs merInrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780307948359
- Titel
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Författare
- Egan, Jennifer
- Förlag
- Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 105 x 175 mm Ryggbredd 22 mm
- Vikt
- 190 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award!
From the award-winning and bestselling author Jennifer Egan, a dazzling, shape-shifting new work of fiction that spans fifty years and stars an aging record executive and the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.
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.
Läs recension i DN: http://www.dn.se/dnbok/bokrecensioner/jennifer-egan-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad
“Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan’s extreme virtuosity.”
—The New York Times
“Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead.”
—The Washington Post
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