![]() ![]() ![]() “Goon Squad”’s formal daring - a key section is rendered as a PowerPoint presentation - tempered by nuanced characterization and a sombre, nostalgic tone, feels both like a finale to the works that preceded it (such as Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth”) and a sign of things to come (Ben Lerner’s “Leaving the Atocha Station”).Įgan herself followed up “Goon Squad” in 2017 with “ Manhattan Beach,” a brilliant historical family saga that cleaved to more traditional storytelling strategies. Looking back, the publication of Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” which won Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010, can be seen as a bridge in literary fiction between the hyper-ironic experimental novels of the aughts and the more reflective, ideologically charged work that followed. ![]()
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