![]() Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data. ![]() He considers what the novel's portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. ![]() In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time. ![]() Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. ![]()
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