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A Visit from the Goon Squad

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 t

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“We have some history together that hasn't happened yet.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationship, Future, Love

“There’s a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Patience, Self-Control

“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Desire, Attraction, Remembered, Art

“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, digital, Millenials, humanity

“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, self control, Thoughts, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature

“The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust.”

— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com

Tagged: Art, Future of Art, Music, Digitization