A Visit from the Goon Squad
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011 & the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2011
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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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.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the
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transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
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Autoren-Porträt von Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jennifer Egan
- 2011, 352 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Corsair
- ISBN-10: 1849010331
- ISBN-13: 9781849010337
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart."--"The New York Times Book Review" "At once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay."--"The San Francisco Chronicle" "A new classic of American fiction."--"Time" "Audacious, extraordinary."--"Philadelphia Inquirer" "A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan's extreme virtuosity."--"The New York Times" "Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology."--"O, The Oprah Magazine" "The smartest book you can get your hands on."--"Los Angeles Times" "A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talen
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