Jennifer Egan : A Visit From the Goon Squad - double-signed, dated & hand-sketched UK 1st HB edn. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011.
UK 1st/1st hardback - these scarce 1st edition copies have been signed and dated by the Pulitzer-prize-winning author Jennifer Egan. They have also been signed (to the back jacket flap) and hand-sketched with an umberella raining musical notes by Greg Heinimann, cover artist.
Note - the first edition run consisted only of 1524 copies - very rare. Contrary to some bookseller views on other sites, there was no paperback issued prior to this harback release - I have had direct confirmation from the publisher, that the hardback and paperback release of this title were SIMULTANEOUS.
Synopsis : 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. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Published 17/03/2011
Publisher Corsair
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed and dated by Jennifer Egan - signed (to the back jacket flap) and hand-sketched (to the title page) by cover artist Greg Heinimann
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
ISBN 9781780330280
Note - the first edition run consisted only of 1524 copies - very rare. Contrary to some bookseller views on other sites, there was no paperback issued prior to this harback release - I have had direct confirmation from the publisher, that the hardback and paperback release of this title were SIMULTANEOUS.
Synopsis : 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. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Published 17/03/2011
Publisher Corsair
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed and dated by Jennifer Egan - signed (to the back jacket flap) and hand-sketched (to the title page) by cover artist Greg Heinimann
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
ISBN 9781780330280
 Sketch by Greg Heinimann |
 Signed by Greg Heinimann |
Jennifer Egan : A Visit From the Goon Squad - double-signed, dated & hand-sketched UK 1st HB edn
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174.99
