Jennifer Egan
Online Arts Journal the Manchester Review is this afternoon publishing an exclusive extract from Jennifer Egan's award-winning novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'. The Novel, acclaimed in the USA but not yet published in the UK, is a hard-hitting comedy that follows the fortunes of a US punk rocker turned record producer. The Manchester Review is published by The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, soon to be home of Professor of Creative Writing Colm Toibin - who starts in the Autumn. It goes live at 12 noon today (14 March) A Visit from the Goon Squad won National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States last year. Co-Director of the Centre Dr Ian McGuire said: "Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the American novel that received all the hype last year, but Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' is better by a mile. "It's funnier, more sophisticated and better written. In fact its pretty much everything a contemporary novel should be.
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