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A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Knopf

Jennifer Egan is back, and she's not messing around. Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad. Lovers of the linear narrative and start-at-point-A-and-end-at-point-B story beware! A Visit from the Goon Squad uses lack of chronology as a characteristic of an experimental novel. Photo courtesy of: www.cbsnews.com. Someone, I think it was Laura, advised me to just read Goon Squad straight through. Paul, David, Jenn and Ali discuss Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer winning novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. Egan pushes the boundaries of what can reasonably be called a “novel” with this intricately structured and densely-linked set of stories. Katie Runnoe A Visit from the Goon Squad, English 331 April 23, 2013 1 Comment ». A Visit From the Goon Squad: "We have some history together that hasn't happened yet." What can I even SAY about this book? That I had forgotten what a well-written book was like until I read the first five pages of this one? So after a great start in 2011 with a couple of decade old modern classics, we're rushing in to (relative) new release territory. I wasn't sure about this book going in (I knew there was a chapter written entirely in PowerPoint, clearly a cause for concern), but it really grew on me. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in fiction, short stories and tagged A Visit from the Goon Squad, Alfred A. Knopf, Jennifer Egan by Melissa.