A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan · 2010
Literary Fiction · ranked #159 in category
Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2011
Music executive Bennie Salazar and his assistant Sasha are at the centre of a set of stories spanning decades and shifting perspectives, formal registers and even one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation. Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel asks what time does to people, to music and to the stories we tell about both.
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