5/20/2023 0 Comments A visit from the goon squadBennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.” His failures resound in his head so loudly that he writes down a litany of humiliations, hoping to excise them.īennie and Sasha’s intersecting paths are illuminated by the subsequent chapters. The problem was precision, perfection the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh…. To Bennie, today’s music is “oo clear, too clean. He’s been dumped by his wife, can’t seem to communicate with his son and, worst of all, has fallen out of sync with the music business. Punker-turned-executive Bennie Salazar is also in trouble. She’s in therapy - she knows she’s in a bad way. Her only thrill comes from stealing she doesn’t profit from it, instead keeping her take - a wallet, a child’s scarf, a seashell - as relics. She’s extremely competent at her job, bored, nonplussed by the date who marvels at her old-style bathtub-in-the-kitchen New York apartment. We start with Sasha, a wry 35-year-old with sticky fingers. It may be the smartest book you can get your hands on this summer. Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is a lively novel in stories about Sasha, an assistant in the music business, and her boss, Bennie Salazar.
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