![]() ![]() Pitched somewhere between crime-noir and domestic novel, the book follows the life of Anna Kerrigan, a girl growing up out of Depression-era New York into a war-time city where women are employed in the naval yard. It was a surprise, then, to hear that Egan’s latest novel, Manhattan Beach, was a historical work without much in the way of genre-bending style. Both books scrutinized modern life with every tool in the box, with Goon Squad (and 2006’s The Keep) employing a whole host of experimental and metafictional techniques to push away from traditional ‘Realism’ into whatever that term might mean in the twenty-first century. With 2010’s Pulitzer-winning novel/story collection hybrid A Visit from the Goon Squad, not to mention 2001’s sublimely inventive and prescient Look At Me, Jennifer Egan earned a place at the head table of contemporary US fiction. ![]()
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