A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

De: Jennifer Egan

Narrado por: Roxana Ortega

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

Bennie 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.

“Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”—The New York Times Book Review

You have to pay attention!

Several reviews I read before purchasing this mentioned that it was difficult to follow as it jumped back and forth in time and between loosely related characters; so, I read with care, often going back and rereading sections. It was not hard to do that, as the story was engaging.

The writing was fresh and different. Magnificently casual with brilliantly REAL dialogue.

The craft of the writing kept me interested in a story that otherwise would not have interested me.

The story itself is for connoisseurs of music - particularly of rock n roll.

A lot of characters and mini-subplots

Many parts were interesting and thought-provoking, but there were too many characters and mini-plots for me to really keep track of.

I listen during long drives once or twice a week. Maybe if I listened straight through while not driving it would have been easier to follow.

Ambitious story about time and art, grating narration

Intricate web of characters, was happy to finally return to Sasha near the end. I appreciate the experimental format, and will think about it for a while. The narrator is terrific when she’s reading straight straight, but the exaggerated masculine voices and screechy child voices are a huge distraction.

A+

Great descriptive, character driven novel! Definitely a captivating read And had a hard time putting it down until I finished it.

No goons really…

Fascinating characters, and unusual structure delivered by fine reader or readers made for a great ride…

Interesting Listen

This is an unusual book that gives an overview of the lives of Sasha and Bennie. Through stories about them and people that have intersected their lives, you glimpse pieces of Sasha and Bennie’s past, present and future. The stories are well written and the narrator does a good job. If you liked Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout or Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi you may enjoy this book as well. I did enjoy the writing and found it fun to piece together Sasha and Bennies lives from the fragments glimpsed in each story. I plan to listen to another book by this author.

A little hard to follow in audio format

There are so many characters in different time periods, that it was hard to follow. It was interesting and held my attention, but I wished I had a print version to flip back and forth between chapters.

Worth reading

A well written text, capturing narrating. Well worth the time spent rereading and listening again.

Best Book I’ve Ever Read

I am an avid reader, and love many great books, but there is nothing like Jennifer Eagan’s, A Visit From the Goon Squad. It’s beautiful, tight narrative still gives me goosebumps for its depth and honest look into human nature. I love this book for articulating our relationship with time and each other. This book is nothing short of brilliant.

Excellent in all aspects of the presentation

Can’t believe I’m only just getting to this incredible interesting and wholly unique experience of a novel! Wait… IS it a novel?