A visit from the goon squad / Jennifer Egan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Corsair, 2011.Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780330280 (hbk.) :
- 1780330286 (hbk.) :
- 9781849010337 (pbk.) :
- 1849010331 (pbk.) :
- 813 EGA
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 EGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100667857 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters.
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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.(Bowker Author Biography)