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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Jennifer Egan
|title=A Visit From the Goon Squad
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Apparently there's a saying that 'time's a goon' - no, I'd never heard of it and to be fair, neither had the first character to whom it is said in Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit from the Goon Squad', but together with a pair of epigraphs from Proust, it's clear that time is very definitely what is being explored here. Egan's subject area is all loosely based around the music world. Her central character, if one can be said to exist, is Bennie Salazar, a music mogul who we encounter both directly and tangentially at various stages of his up and down career. ''Goon Squad'' is also the title of an Elvis Costello track, continuing the music theme as Egan uses the music industry as a lens to examine time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010331</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Liebenberg