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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which centres around Bennie Salazar, a frustrated middle-aged record executive, and his assistant Sasha, a kleptomaniac with a troubled past. Their stories are interwoven with those of a host of other characters who are all given the opportunity to narrate events from their point of view, making the work as a whole a vivid, polyphonic hybrid novel-short story collection.
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JENNIFER EGAN
AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT-STORY WRITER
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1962.Notable works: The Keep (2006), novel“Black Box” (2012), short storyManhattan Beach (2017), novelJennifer Egan was born in Chicago but spent the majority of her childhood in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate and then went on to earn her MA at St John’s College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, she spent time travelling around Europe, and these experiences became the basis for her first novel, The Invisible Circus (1995), which was later made into a film (2001).
After moving to New York City, Egan began writing articles and short stories for publications such as Harper’s Magazine and The New Yorker. Egan’s second novel, Look at Me was published in 2001 and became a finalist for the National Book Award. Egan later published The Keep in 2006 and A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2010. Goon Squad went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Egan’s works deal with serious topics in often ironic and humorous ways. Her writing revels in the flaws of her characters. In several of her works, including A Visit from the Goon Squad, she actually writes from the perspective of criminals. Often playing with time, chronology and identity, the more salient theme throughout Egan’s work is simply life in all its realities and imperfections.
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
A POLYPHONIC VIGNETTE COLLECTION
Genre: novelReference edition: Egan, J. (2010) A Visit from the Goon Squad. New York: Random House, Inc.1st edition: 2010Themes: time, age, music, voice, marriage, parenthood, changeA Visit from the Goon Squad is a work somewhere between a novel and a short story collection. Each chapter is told from either the first or third person perspective of a different character and follows, in a sense, its own complete narrative. However, the stories of each character are interlaced with each other in more or less tangential ways. Often a side character briefly mentioned in one chapter will become the protagonist of the following chapter, and characters who were the heroes of their own chapters often reappear as side characters in later chapters.
