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GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad

POSTED: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 5:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.

Knopf, 288 pp., $25.95, June 8

In anticipation of Jennifer Egan's Free Library talk tonight, we're giving away a copy of the Brooklyn author's new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. It's all about former punk rockers, so it felt right to let Rodney Anonymous, a still-punk rocker, take a crack at it. Here's a snippet of his review:

With Egan's considerable gifts for constructing interesting, quirky characters and her skill at capturing the feel of a given time and place, this could have been a tremendously satisfying read. Instead, the author gives in to the temptation to employ the gimmick of creating fragile links between the characters and moving them about in time and space — allowing a teenager to attend a concert in San Francisco and then, a few chapters later, to be on safari in Africa with his children and new, younger wife.

To win a copy and see for yourself, answer the following trivia question:

In Goon Squad, what fictional record company did washed-up protagonist Bennie Salazar once found?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Goon Squad" in the subject line. Check back at 3 p.m. for a chance to win a copy of the monster mashup Android Karenina. [UPDATE, 3:26 p.m.]: Congratulations to CritMass reader Rob, who correctly answered that Salazar's record company is called Sow's Ear Records.

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