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Understanding Jennifer Egan (Hardcover)
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Understanding Jennifer Egan (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the
novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works,
analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her
literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in
contemporary fiction. Moran argues that because Egan's fiction is
not easily categorized many of her novels have been
underappreciated. He proposes a framework for understanding her
writing centered on what it means to have, and to write, an
"authentic" experience. In Emerald City, Egan explores the
authenticity of touristic experience; in The Invisible Circus, her
focus shifts to the authenticity of historical memory; in Look at
Me, The Keep, and A Visit from the Goon Squad, she explores the
effects of digital technology on how we understand authentic
experience. In the concluding chapter, Moran discusses Egan's 2017
novel Manhattan Beach as a text that explores the authenticity of
history and genre while resonating with the instability of the
present.
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