Modernity’s Undoing
Pankaj Mishra: ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’, 31 March 2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan.
Corsair, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2011,978 1 78033 028 0 Show More
by Jennifer Egan.
Corsair, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2011,
“... that it is easy to forget what a large-scale re-engineering of human lives they have led to. Jennifer Egan, an American writer, is rare for still being able to register incredulity at the weirdness of this process. In her novel Look at Me (2001), she makes one of her main characters, an isolated intellectual, spell it all out: The ‘narrative of ... ”