Wallace having committed suicide in 2008, as she was working on Goon Squad, Egan may have intended homage more than parody. 2002) chapter 5, “You (Plural)” (2005) chapter 8, “Selling the General” (2006) chapter 1, “Found Objects” (2005 or early 2006) chapter 2, “Gold Cure” (2006) chapter 12 “Great Rock and Roll Pauses” (early 2020s) chapter 13, “Pure Language” (Winter 2021–2022).Ĥ For example, Churchwell, “ A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan-Review.” See also Blythe. 2000, maybe earlier) chapter 7, “A to B” (ca. Right now, setting aside any of its genre musings, this novel is well written, totally original, and. Arranged in chronological order, the earliest part of Egan's narrative would be chapter 4, “Safari” (set in 1973), followed by chapter 3, “Ask Me if I Care” (1979) chapter 11, “Goodbye, My Love” (1990) chapter 10, “Out of Body” (1993) chapter 9, “Forty-Minute Lunch” (1997) chapter 6, “X's and O's” (ca. This week, it’s the recent Pulitzer Prize winner, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad. 1 “The Proust factor was huge,” she remarks in an interview with The Daily Beast (see Ciabattari).Ģ The lines are from La prisonnière (in English The Prisoner or The Captive), volume 5 of À la recherche du temps perdu (527–28).ģ See, for example, Blythe, “To Their Own Beat,” or Gross, “In Egan's ‘Goon Squad,’ Stories,” Austin American-Statesman.
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