5/24/2023 0 Comments A visit from the goon squad review![]() Her mastery of this fractured, polyphonic approach should come as no surprise, as she’s an accomplished short-story writer. His story runs parallel to hers, the bass line to her melody.Įgan does an admirable job of speaking in different voices-vulnerable teenage girls, ruined PR mavens, washed-up middle-aged men. Jumping back and forth across decades and into the future, the stories offer flashes of insight into the lives of two protagonists: Sasha, a kleptomaniac, flame-haired music-biz PA, and her boss, Bennie, a neurotic producer whose career peaked in the ’80s. In a way, you could say the entire book is about these pauses: the interludes in people’s lives that are as much a part of the narrative as forward action.Ī Visit From the Goon Squad is told from the points of view of 13 interconnected characters, all of whom fight the passage of time-and a slide into irrelevancy. One chapter is devoted to an analysis of “great rock and roll pauses”. Characters crank Dead Kennedys in the car, spiky-haired groupies fellate producers in dirty New York clubs, people read Spin. References to music both real and fictional litter the novel. ![]() ![]() You don’t have to love ’70s and ’80s punk and rock to appreciate Brooklynite Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad, but it helps. ![]() Published by Knopf, 288 pp, $30, hardcover ![]()
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