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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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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初读《时间里的痴人》,最让人印象深刻的就是它的结构了。乍看之下,这是一部由十三篇相对独立的小说组成的短篇集,但是与同样以音乐和音乐人为主题的短篇集——如石黑一雄的《小夜曲:音乐与黄昏五故事集》——不同,《时间里的痴人》中的十三个短篇实则是隶属于整个故事的十...  

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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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《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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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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3.5星。除了creativity writing这点值得盛赞之外,好几个故事都略显无聊。个人比较喜欢的是偷窃僻女秘书,略具黑色幽默的Scotty从摇滚少年变成中年清洁工的,以及模仿DFW脚注写法的悲催新闻撰稿人这三个故事。

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神书一本…我甚至都推荐给邓同学了

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大概是过去一年里看的最好的书。#BookClub

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time is a goon.时间是条恶棍

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