![]() ![]() I liked that it wasn’t predictable and kept me as a reader guessing of what might happen next. I have never come across a book written in this way and I have to say I liked it. The book is mainly based around New York, but some stories take you out of that setting into different countries for example Italy or a Safari in Africa. ![]() Im about to read Candy House again, the companion book to Goon Squad. ![]() Now Im officially obsessed with Jennifer Egan. ![]() I found the book a bit strange to start with and was looking for something I can relate to, but after a while I got used to the style and the way the different characters presented itself. 4/5: Having just read, and been a bit baffled by, Candy House - I went back to the source. Although the book can be read a separate short stories, there is a threat that follows through the book and links the characters to each other and in the end the book comes full circle back to the first story. Chapter twelve is written as a kind of slide show or power point presentation. Each chapter is written from a different characters view point and timeline. The stories evolve around certain central characters and jump back and forth in time. The book has thirteen chapters, which can either be read as individual short stories, or as part of the whole novel. A Visit from the Goon Squad was disappointing in so many ways. This isn’t a book I would have normally chosen, but I am glad we had to read it as part of our course, as it has an interesting structure. 00:49:09 - Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. I had to read this book as part of my University course in creative writing. ![]()
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