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A visit from the goon squad

Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Egan, Jennifer
Verfasser*innenangabe: Jennifer Egan
Jahr: 2020
Verlag: London, corsair
Mediengruppe: Buch
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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. (Verlagstext)

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Egan, Jennifer
Verfasser*innenangabe: Jennifer Egan
Jahr: 2020
Verlag: London, corsair
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ISBN: 978-1-78033-096-9
2. ISBN: 1-78033-096-0
Beschreibung: 349 Seiten
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Sprache: Englisch
Mediengruppe: Buch