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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan: The Complete Guide for Readers and Leaders

Marilyn Herbert

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bookclub-in-a-Box literary discussion guides offer interpretations and analysis of the themes, symbols, and writing styles of your favorite contemporary novels. Each guide also includes a handy plot synopsis, the author's biographical information, discussion questions, and more. They are ideal for use by book club members, teachers, students, and literature lovers. Discussion guide does not include the novel itself.

About A Visit From the Goon Squad: Moving back and forth between different characters and points in time, A Visit From the Goon Squad weaves the story of Bennie Salazar, an aging musician and record executive, Sasha, his assistant with a history of sticky fingers, and a whole host of others whose lives are intricately interconnected.
In the 1970s, Bennie was the bassist in a San Francisco punk band, the Flaming Dildos. Decades later, he finds his career as a record executive and his relevance in the industry slowly fading. While his tastes remain the same, the music scene and the technology that creates it change rapidly around him. Sasha, his younger assistant, loyally keeps an increasingly forgetful Bennie on track, but struggles with her own history of aimlessness, loss, and a bad pick-pocketing impulse.
Each chapter offers a new perspective, from Sasha’s college friend Rob, to Bennie’s destitute former bandmate Scotty, to an entire chapter laid out as a PowerPoint presentation by Sasha’s daughter, Alison. Moving from the 1970s to the 2020s and several places in between, Goon Squad shows how every encounter — whether it’s a one-time acquaintance or a lifelong friend — has the potential to change a life’s direction, but no matter what you do, time is the one goon you can never avoid.

Language: English

Pages: 72

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bookclub-in-a-Box

Release: March 28, 2016

Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan: The Complete Guide for Readers and Leaders

Marilyn Herbert

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bookclub-in-a-Box literary discussion guides offer interpretations and analysis of the themes, symbols, and writing styles of your favorite contemporary novels. Each guide also includes a handy plot synopsis, the author's biographical information, discussion questions, and more. They are ideal for use by book club members, teachers, students, and literature lovers. Discussion guide does not include the novel itself.

About A Visit From the Goon Squad: Moving back and forth between different characters and points in time, A Visit From the Goon Squad weaves the story of Bennie Salazar, an aging musician and record executive, Sasha, his assistant with a history of sticky fingers, and a whole host of others whose lives are intricately interconnected.
In the 1970s, Bennie was the bassist in a San Francisco punk band, the Flaming Dildos. Decades later, he finds his career as a record executive and his relevance in the industry slowly fading. While his tastes remain the same, the music scene and the technology that creates it change rapidly around him. Sasha, his younger assistant, loyally keeps an increasingly forgetful Bennie on track, but struggles with her own history of aimlessness, loss, and a bad pick-pocketing impulse.
Each chapter offers a new perspective, from Sasha’s college friend Rob, to Bennie’s destitute former bandmate Scotty, to an entire chapter laid out as a PowerPoint presentation by Sasha’s daughter, Alison. Moving from the 1970s to the 2020s and several places in between, Goon Squad shows how every encounter — whether it’s a one-time acquaintance or a lifelong friend — has the potential to change a life’s direction, but no matter what you do, time is the one goon you can never avoid.

Language: English

Pages: 72

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bookclub-in-a-Box

Release: March 28, 2016

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