![]() “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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