![]() ![]() The chapters sound like song titles, beginning with "Found Objects," in which a woman named Sasha - the assistant to high-powered record executive Bennie Salazar - tells her therapist about her latest petty theft, a compulsion she doesn't understand and can't stop. "A Visit From the Goon Squad" is structured like an album ( not a CD), with cleverly labeled A and B sides. ![]() ![]() In her new novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," she turns her attention to the imperiled music business, showing how digitization has turned an art form into an industry, and real music has been replaced by slick simulacra. Egan is clearly interested in the way that technology shapes human experience. Her last novel, "The Keep," was a neogothic metafiction, set in a gloomy Eastern European castle, in which cell phones played a key part. Jennifer Egan is a rare bird: an experimental writer with a deep commitment to character, whose fiction is at once intellectually stimulating and moving. ![]()
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