He’s forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalizing memory. Now Egan has published a follow-up, which she calls not a sequel but a ‘sibling’ to the original. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. Small surprise, though, that the multi-million dollar television series which was promised in the wake of its success has yet to appear it’s tough to imagine how so convoluted a nest of stories could ever translate effectively and recognisably into even the most elaborate Netflix maxi-series. The book caused a splash, in both critical and commercial terms, striking for a project of such unabashed complexity. 51 distinct works Similar authors More books by Jennifer Egan Series by Jennifer Egan Goon Squad (2 books) Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) 3.It’s as much a short story collection as it is a novel, the author happy to break literary rules without compunction and always keen to nudge the reader into doing as much work as possible: to make connections between disparate episodes, to build up a larger narrative for themselves. Average rating: 3.66 381,731 ratings 40,853 reviews 51 distinct works Similar authors More books by Jennifer Egan Series by Jennifer Egan Goon Squad (2 books) Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) 3. I t’s been twelve years since Jennifer Egan published A Visit from the Goon Squad, a polyphonic and unceasingly inventive sprawl of a text, which remains both her best-known creation and her most celebrated, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
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