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Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: Jennifer Egan
Year First Published: 2011
Page Count: 352
Synopsis: 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. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

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Focus Male/Female Main Character Mid-life
Focus Husband/Wife Main Character Adult
Focus Parent/Child Setting North America
Focus Friends Setting Africa
Main Character Male Time Period Contemporary
Main Character Female

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