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A Visit from the Goon Squad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Love these characters and their messy lives. Love these episodic, cinematic chapters (that includes the one written like a Power Point presentation) that are as fresh, funny and smart as they were when they was first published.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus ...

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