It’s a novel, but also linked stories, and also, in part, a PowerPoint presentation. It skips around in time and place and voice (if it has an anchor, it’s music, taking in the eighties post-punk scene in the Bay Area and the the New York music industry of the future). “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is both a serious work of literary fiction and a page-turner, a book that defies easy categorization. The New York Times Book Review At once intellectually stimulating and moving. Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart. Portions of the book originally appeared in The New Yorker, in three stories: “ Safari,” “ Ask Me If I Care,” and “ Found Objects.” We chose the book for several reasons: A) We were all eager to read it, B) We received e-mails from several readers suggesting it, and C) It seems suited to April, a month when we’re still carrying a bit of our wintertime seriousness but ready to be dazzled by spring. The Pulitzer Prize Board noted that the novel was an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Coming off our March celebration of Jon’s book, we turn to a book by another one of our own: Jennifer Egan’s novel “ A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which recently won the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for fiction. For a book so relentlessly savvy about the digital age and its effect on how we experience time (speeded up, herky-jerky, instantaneous, but also full of unbearable gaps and pauses), A Visit.
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