A Visit from the Goon Squad
- ISBN-10
- 0307477479
- ISBN-13
- 9780307477477
- Series
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Jennifer Egan
Description
Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.
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