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发表于2024-12-26
A Visit From the Goon Squad pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles 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 longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. 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. This sly, startling, exhilarating work comes from one of our boldest writers.
Affecting, sad, not that funny funny, and not that wise but wise.
評分Affecting, sad, not that funny funny, and not that wise but wise.
評分形式太過新穎,實在不是我的菜。除瞭歲月是把殺豬刀,沒有太多感動。最喜歡的是Out of body那一篇,最不喜歡PPT那一篇。
評分形式太過新穎,實在不是我的菜。除瞭歲月是把殺豬刀,沒有太多感動。最喜歡的是Out of body那一篇,最不喜歡PPT那一篇。
評分Affecting, sad, not that funny funny, and not that wise but wise.
詹妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)并不是一位十分有名的作家,她的长篇小说《A Visit From the Goon Squad》(姑且试译为《恶棍来访》)却让人眼前一亮。之所以喜欢这本书,也许和笔者在读小说方面的个人趣味有关。我读小说有些偏食,最喜欢的,是那些出自当代作家之手的带有实...
評分詹妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)并不是一位十分有名的作家,她的长篇小说《A Visit From the Goon Squad》(姑且试译为《恶棍来访》)却让人眼前一亮。之所以喜欢这本书,也许和笔者在读小说方面的个人趣味有关。我读小说有些偏食,最喜欢的,是那些出自当代作家之手的带有实...
評分詹妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)并不是一位十分有名的作家,她的长篇小说《A Visit From the Goon Squad》(姑且试译为《恶棍来访》)却让人眼前一亮。之所以喜欢这本书,也许和笔者在读小说方面的个人趣味有关。我读小说有些偏食,最喜欢的,是那些出自当代作家之手的带有实...
評分詹妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)并不是一位十分有名的作家,她的长篇小说《A Visit From the Goon Squad》(姑且试译为《恶棍来访》)却让人眼前一亮。之所以喜欢这本书,也许和笔者在读小说方面的个人趣味有关。我读小说有些偏食,最喜欢的,是那些出自当代作家之手的带有实...
評分詹妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)并不是一位十分有名的作家,她的长篇小说《A Visit From the Goon Squad》(姑且试译为《恶棍来访》)却让人眼前一亮。之所以喜欢这本书,也许和笔者在读小说方面的个人趣味有关。我读小说有些偏食,最喜欢的,是那些出自当代作家之手的带有实...
A Visit From the Goon Squad pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024