Visit from the Goon Squad
Author
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
340 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Bennie Salazar, who put aside his days as a punk rocker to be a record executive, reminisces about his younger years and how his adulthood came to be while he remains naive to the inner workings of Sasha, the mid-thirties woman who works with Bennie and harbors a penchant for stealing.
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...