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A visit from the Goon Squad

Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and m...

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Main Author: Egan, Jennifer.
Other Authors: Ortega, Roxana.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: North Kingstown, RI : BBC Audiobooks America, p2010.
Series: Goon Squad ; 1.
Subjects:
Punk rock musicians > Fiction.
Sound recording executives and producers > Fiction.
Older men > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > United States.
Audiobooks.
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 powerful 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.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 10:05:00.
Physical Description: 8 sound discs (10 hr., 5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781602839151
1602839158
9780792771746
0792771745
Author Notes: Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 6, 1962. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and Manhattan Beach, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2018. Her title, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Harpers, and Granta. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine and have won a number of awards.

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