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Early in the novel, Alex is new to New York City, and enamored by the novel environment. He goes on a date with Sasha, during which she steals a woman’s wallet. Alex has strong morals, and stands up to the hotel workers, whom he feels are not doing a sufficient job helping the woman find her wallet. Alex returns later in the novel as a divorced and remarried father of a toddler. He is disillusioned and disconnected from his new wife, Rebecca. He takes a job with Bennie doing social media marketing to promote a concert played by Scotty. He works alongside Lulu, and feels insecure about his work, but ultimately goes on to promote a show that goes down in history.
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Chapter 13
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At last he found Rebecca, smiling, holding Cara-Ann in her arms. She was dancing. They were too far away for Alex to reach them, and the distance felt irrevocable, a chasm that would keep him from ever again touching the delicate silk of Rebecca's eyelids, or feeling, through his daughter's ribs, the scramble of her heartbeat. Without the zoom, he couldn't even see them. In desperation, he T'd Rebecca, pls wAt 4me, my bUtiful wyf, then kept his zoom trained on her face until he saw her register the vibration, pause in her dancing, and reach for it.
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Alex Quotes in A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Chapter 13
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At last he found Rebecca, smiling, holding Cara-Ann in her arms. She was dancing. They were too far away for Alex to reach them, and the distance felt irrevocable, a chasm that would keep him from ever again touching the delicate silk of Rebecca's eyelids, or feeling, through his daughter's ribs, the scramble of her heartbeat. Without the zoom, he couldn't even see them. In desperation, he T'd Rebecca, pls wAt 4me, my bUtiful wyf, then kept his zoom trained on her face until he saw her register the vibration, pause in her dancing, and reach for it.
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