“A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a book about time that tried to predict American life in 2020, and deserves to be revisited in 2020, ten years after its publication.

"A Visit From the Goon Squad" is structured like an album (not a CD), with cleverly labeled A and B sides.The chapters sound like song titles, beginning with "Found Objects," in which a woman ...

Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” is a medley of voices — in first, second and third person — scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page ...

“A Visit from the Goon Squad” By Jennifer Egan Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $24.95 Consider the vinyl record. Round and round it goes. Or went. Like a lot of the vintage culture encoded in ...

A Visit From the Goon Squad. A Novel. Jennifer Egan. Alfred A. Knopf: 278 pp., $25.95. Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is a lively novel in stories about Sasha, an assistant in ...

At the end of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, in a not too distant future, a promoter. By Emily Witt • 07/12/11 10:12am. Hari Kunzru: the eigenvectors will find his fans.

Just out is her fourth novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf), and while it's a time-trekking, tech-freakin' doozie, the characters' lives and fates claim the story first and foremost, and we ...

“A Visit From The Goon Squad” By Jennifer Egan Knopf, 288 pages, $25.95 Jennifer Egan’s decision to render portions of her new novel, “A Visit From the Goon Squad” (Knopf), as a ...

Given that “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a book about time that tried to predict American life in 2020, it deserves to be revisited in 2020, ten years after its publication. “The problem is it’s ...