Reviewed by Marko Fong Is Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad a novel or is it a collection of related short stories? A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has an overall rating of Rave based on 12 book reviews. - Bosco, a character from A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a unique book which defies analysis, probably because it breaks all conventions of storytelling. “Time’s a goon,” as the action moves from the late 1970s to the early 2020s while the characters wonder what happened to their youthful selves and ideals. In fact, it does not tell a story at all. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a tremendous novel: thoughtful, subtle, funny, wacky, energetic, profoundly authentic. Finden Sie hilfreiche Kundenrezensionen und Rezensionsbewertungen für A Visit from the Goon Squad auf Amazon.de. And her second? takes the music business as a case in point for society’s monumental shift from the analog to the digital age. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has an overall rating of Rave based on 12 book reviews. Although shredded with loss, “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is often darkly, rippingly funny. It tells individual memories from people (and family) involved in a record label that is struggling to remain relevant as time progresses. That she writes her first drafts by longhand? That she was a reader for The Paris Review? The novel is difficult to define, its twists and turns in narrative prompting the reader to even question Goon Squad’s identity as a novel. Times a goon, right? Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is a lively novel in stories about Sasha, an assistant in the music business, and her boss, Bennie Salazar. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan.The book is a set of thirteen interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has an overall rating of Rave based on 12 book reviews. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. In her brash beauty of a novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan understands the power of shame, simply because it makes one present in the moment as effectively as fear or desire. A Visit from the Goon Squad: Review of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, plus back-story and other interesting facts about the book. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a unique and well written novel though I would classify it more of a collection of short stories. Lesen Sie ehrliche und unvoreingenommene Rezensionen von unseren Nutzern. Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart. Egan ( The Keep , 2006, etc.) I have Jennifer Egan fever. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel by Jennifer Egan, a 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning work, a story about stories, a tale about time, loss and redemption. I caught it at the beginning of last year, when I read “Ask Me if I Care,” a short story of hers that The New Yorker had excerpted from her then-forthcoming novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD Book Review Roundup And yet, unlike the fragmented, seemingly unconnected world of the Shuffle, where randomization is celebrated over construction, A Visit from the Goon Squad reads as a whole, as tight as the pickup on a single-coil Fender, locked and loaded. Jennifer Egan propels that structure to new dizzying heights with A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel of interconnecting stories that is as emotionally accurate as it is architecturally adventurous.