She remembers that it made her wonder whether she could write a novel with the lateral feeling of a TV show, “the sense of movement in all directions, but not necessarily forward.” HBO, home of The Sopranos, owns the rights to make Goon Squad into a series, which will return this cinematically influenced book to some of its origins on the screen. Every chapter is a surprise.Įgan was more consciously influenced by The Sopranos. She assembles her story carefully but never predictably. Egan’s readers learn about her characters only in isolated scenes. Her technique recalls the way we sometimes hear about old friends only in brief glimpses that don’t really make sense until we think about them later. Egan moves the reader decades back from the point where she begins, then forward again, then finally ahead, to a moment in the future. Their intricately linked narratives appear out of sequence, so we may find out about someone’s mature years before we learn about their adolescence. We follow them over four decades or so, from the excitement of high-school punk bands in San Francisco to the disappointment and disillusionments of their New York lives, lived against the background of music’s downfall as a business. Most of her characters live within popular music: They play it, write it, produce recordings of it or sell it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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