A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Jennifer Egan’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

出版者:Knopf
作者:Jennifer Egan
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页数:288
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出版时间:2010-06-08
价格:USD 29.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780307592835
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  • 美国文学 
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  • Pulitzer 
  • 美国国家书评奖 
  • 英文原版 
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Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle 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 long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. 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 transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.

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上周(2011年3月),詹妮弗·伊根的《恶棍来访》获得美国国家书评奖。本周,她又进入橘子文学奖决赛榜单。这些都是评论界和大众对伊根作品的好评,该作品已成畅销书,名列2011年美国“必读书目”的榜首。 对《恶棍来访》好评如潮与它想要成就为社会小说的尝试有关,其同...  

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The phrase "time is a goon" is uttered twice in this audacious, surprisingly affecting novel-in-pieces - first by an ageing rock star, and again, years later, by a manager trying to persuade another errant, decrepit star on to a stage. All these people are ...  

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《时间里的痴人》你拼命啊!你拼命啊!拼命啊。 
 “普通人的一生,再好也是桃花扇,撞破了头,血溅到扇子上,就这上面略加点染成一枝桃花。” —张爱玲《红玫瑰与白玫瑰》 “为了要活得幸福,我们应当相信幸福的可能性。” —托尔斯泰《战争与和平》 对于普通人的一生...  

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还没有看完这本书,但是有一些徘徊在脑子里的话,就爬上来啰嗦几句。 最开始接触这本书的时候,说实话,看封面,我没有什么想看的欲望。(封面党是的)但是翻开之后,一直徘徊在看下去和不看下去之间。 我觉得这是一个很悲伤地故事。时间并不是一个很新颖的topic,尤其是在早...  

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最后一章伪Scifi略难下咽外都不错。Tag line: Time is a goon. 一群人,内心戏,和时光如何改变了他们。这些人都不太快乐,都或多或少fucked up,都略有些nutcase的潜质。最喜欢slides形式的那一章,格外动人。

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experimentation trumped the story line

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乱死了。

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Time is a bitch

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这本书的结构非常有意思,A, B讲不同时代的故事。故事本身一个个也各有千秋,那么多的人物全面铺开,详细写道,不容易。

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