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A Visit from the Goon Squad

This 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.

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  • "Read 'em and discuss"
  • "Visit from the Goon Squad"@en
  • "Visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "A visit from the Goon Squad"@tr
  • "Visit from the goon squad"@pl
  • "Books in a box"
  • "Books in a bag"
  • "A Visit from the Goon Squad"@it
  • "READ"

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  • "Een oudere punker die nu een platenmaatschappij heeft en zijn hartstochtelijke, maar verwarde jonge medewerkster tonen aan hoe kunst en muziek een mens uit de dagelijkse beslommeringen kunnen verlossen."
  • "A novel that 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 detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs."
  • "This 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."@en
  • "Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and art and music have the power to redeem."
  • "Author Jennifer Egan's 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."
  • "Author Jennifer Egan's 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."@en
  • "Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this 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."
  • "Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this 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."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "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,"@en
  • "NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Best BookOne of the Best Books of the Year:?Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village VoiceBennie 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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Bennie Salazar, ein Musikproduzent mit Visionen, hat Höhen und Tiefen erlebt. Auch seine Assistentin Sasha hat Probleme, von denen er allerdings nichts ahnt. Als Scotty, der Leadgitarrist von Bennies einstiger Punkband, überraschend wieder auftaucht, holt die Vergangenheit beide ein. Jennifer Egan entwirft ein grosses Portrait des kulturellen Umbruchs seit dem Ende der Utopien bis zum digitalen Zeitalter und erzählt in wechselnden Perspektiven von Liebe, Freundschaft und Verlust. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT reicht von der Musikszene San Franciscos Ende der Siebziger und dem New York der Neunziger bis zur ökologischen Katastrophe der Zukunft und einem verblüffenden Konzert am Ground Zero. Für ihren Roman erhielt Jennifer Egan den Pulitzer-Preis 2011 und zahlreiche weitere renommierte Auszeichnungen. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wird für das Fernsehen verfilmt, ist in 28 Sprachen übersetzt und international ein Bestseller. Jennifer Egan wurde 1962 in Chicago geboren und wuchs in San Francisco auf. Neben ihren Romanen und Kurzgeschichten schreibt sie für den New Yorker sowie das New York Times Magazine und lehrt an der Columbia University Creative Writing. Ihr Roman LOOK AT ME kam ins Finale für die Nominierung des National Book Awards. Für ihren Roman DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wurde sie mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2011 ausgezeichnet."

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  • "Bestseller 2011 (Englisch)"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Translations"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Novels"
  • "Verhalend proza"

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  • "Tæskeholdet banker på"
  • "Tæskeholdet banker på"@da
  • "Návštěva bandy rváčů"
  • "Tatovi na obisku"@sl
  • "El Temps és un cabró"@ca
  • "Der grössere Teil der Welt Roman"
  • "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "A Visit from the Goon Squad"@en
  • "A Visit From The Goon Squad"@en
  • "Vremi︠a︡ smeetsi︠a︡ poslednim"
  • "Der grössere Teil der Welt : Roman"
  • "A visit from the goon squad"@en
  • "A visit from the goon squad"
  • "˜Derœ größere Teil der Welt Roman"
  • "Время смеется последним"
  • "Kkangpʻae tanŭi pangmun"
  • "時間裡的癡人"
  • "Shi jian li de chi ren"
  • "A visit from the goon squad : [a novel]"
  • "恶棍来访"
  • "E gun lai fang"
  • "מפגש עם חוליית הבריונים"
  • "Zanim dopadnie nas czas"
  • "Zanim dopadnie nas czas"@pl
  • "El temps és un cabró"
  • "Bezoek van de knokploeg"
  • "Qu'avons-nous fait de nos rêves? : roman"
  • "Kkangp'ae Tan ŭi pangmun : Chenip'ŏ Igŏn changp'yŏn sosŏl = A visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "Mifgash ʻim Ḥulyat ha-biryonim"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Qu'avons-nous fait de nos rêves ? : roman"
  • "時間裡的癡人 = A visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "Il tempo è un bastardo"@it
  • "Il tempo è un bastardo"
  • "A visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "A visit from the Goon Squad"@en
  • "Shi jian li de chi ren = A visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "깡패 단 의 방문"
  • "İt kopuk takımı"@tr
  • "İt kopuk takımı"
  • "깡패 단 의 방문 : 제니퍼 이건 장편 소설 = A visit from the Goon Squad"
  • "Der größere Teil der Welt : Roman"
  • "A visit from Goon Squad"

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