![]() ![]() ![]() The book is structured like an album, sort of, for people who were starting to really miss albums: thirteen chapters or closely linked stories skipping around in time from the 1970s until the then future of 2020. ![]() To this end, A Visit from the Goon Squad is full of gold things, including the long blond hair of several covetable girls and women. A Visit from the Goon Squad is about rock and roll! A Visit from the Goon Squad is about America, which has been in decline for a while now. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a nineteenth-century novel, a modernist novel, a postmodern novel, and actually really enjoyable. You can’t not mention it, but there are other things to talk about. It wasn’t just about the PowerPoint, though in retrospect the PowerPoint seems to have been given the right amount of attention, which is to say a moderate amount. It was 2010, and PowerPoint had been around for twenty-three years, but that didn’t matter, because no one had put one in a novel before, or at least no one who had already written four relatively successful works of fiction. She put a PowerPoint presentation in a novel, and the world said: OMG. ![]()
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