Jennifer Egan is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus; and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
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Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time,
The Washington Post, and Village Voice
“Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses
a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“At once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . Like a
masterful album, this one demands a replay.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle
“A new classic of American fiction.”
—Time
“Audacious, extraordinary.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan’s
extreme virtuosity.”
—The New York Times
“Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both
subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time,
destiny, and individual accountability post-technology.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“The smartest book you can get your hands on.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about
individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is
one of the most talented writers today.”
—The New York Review of Books
“It ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has
changes, including you, the reader.”
—The New Republic
“Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking. . . . Features characters about whom
you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they
shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human.”
—The Chicago Tribune
“Egan’s bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory
days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly
satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay
between music and the rough rhythms of life.”
—Vogue
“Told with both affection and intensity, Goon Squad stands as a
brilliant, all-absorbing novel for the beach, the woods, the
air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your
iPod. Stay with this one.”
—Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered
“Brilliant, inventive. . . . Emboldening. It cracks the world open
afresh. . . . Would that Marcel Proust could receive [a copy]. It
would blow his considerable mind. . . . Expect to inhale Egan’s A
Visit From the Goon Squad. Then expect it to lodge in your cranium
and your breastbone a good long while.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Frequently dazzling. . . . Egan’s expert flaying of human foibles
has the compulsive allure of poking at a sore tooth: excruciating
but exhilarating too.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious
gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all
worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender
sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and
curl up with The Goon Squad instead.”
—The Washington Post
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