Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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.
Pitch perfect… Darkly, rippingly funny. …Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.
—The New York Times Book ReviewIt ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has changed, including you, the reader.
—The New RepublicFor all its postmodern flourishes, Goon Squad is as traditional as a Dickens novel. . . [Egan’s] aim is not so much to explode traditional storytelling as to explore how it responds to the pressures and opportunities of the digital age.
—Newsweek
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- Monday, October 17th, 7 p.m., the C.E. Room
- Monday, Oct. 24th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building
Where can I purchase this book?
Copies of A Visit from the Goon Squad are now available at Accent on Books, on Merrimon Avenue, at discounted price, thanks to parishioner, Lewis Sorrells.
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Please visit the Book Group website at: http://allsoulsconnection.org/groups/all-souls-book-group, or our website the Center for Spiritual Resources: http://thecsr.org/all-souls-book-group-resources
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus of the Kay Falk Literary Project, which is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching mission. For more information, please contact Emilie White at etwhite8@charter.net.