Although Goon Squad is mostly vignettes where the characters get brief moments on stage before disappearing (and sometimes reappearing as secondary characters), I felt like I knew them the whole time. The latter I did because I liked the former so much.Įgan has a way with characterization. The former I did last year for a library bingo requirement. Literature and general fiction are not really my bag so if you told me the plots of both A Visit From the Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach respectively, I would have had no interest in doing so. There are some writers who have a style that just works for the reader and I suppose Egan’s is one for me. It’s not leaving me breathless the way 2666 did, more so a state of stark admiration where I feel like words won’t do it justice. Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach is such a brilliant, beautiful book that I’m having difficulty conjuring up words to review it.
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