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A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Knopf

Book Review: A Visit from the Goon Squad. I read Beloved recently and that reaffirmed my general avoidance. It is extremely hard to classify or to summarize this convoluted exercise in story-telling. In the end though, I think the category hardly matters. Posted by Stephanie on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment. "Probably the most extraordinary novel I've ever read," says reviewer Carole Beu of The Women's Bookshop. A Visit From the Goon Squad somehow passed my initial Pulitzer “weed out”, and thank goodness it did. Goon I am having a hard time classifying Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize winning book A Visit From the Goon Squad. A few weeks ago we asked all of our readers to send in their book reviews of A Visit From the Goon Squad for our Reviewer Spotlight contest—out of all those entries, this very personal review was the one we chose to feature. So after a great start in 2011 with a couple of decade old modern classics, we're rushing in to (relative) new release territory. Someone, I think it was Laura, advised me to just read Goon Squad straight through. Is A Visit from the Goon Squad really a novel or is it a collection of linked stories? When 23-year-old Doug Smith first tried out for a professional ice hockey team, the East Coast Hockey League's Carolina Thunderbirds, in October 1988, he knew his chances were slim. I'm still not quite sure what to make of this book. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Yesterday, Jennifer Egan's rock-and-roll novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the Pulitzer. There's no script yet, but Egan will serve as a consultant. Admittedly, I am a bit weary of Pulitzer prize winners. Today, HBO has optioned it for a TV show. On the one hand, it reads like a novel with a set cast of characters and carefully intertwined themes. Posted September 5th, 2012 by indiscriminatecritic & filed under Book Review.