A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME One of the Best Books of the Year:
Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and
Village Voice "Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart."
--The New York Times Book Review "At once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay."
--The San Francisco Chronicle "A new classic of American fiction."
--Time "Audacious, extraordinary."
--Philadelphia Inquirer "A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan's extreme virtuosity."
--The New York Times "Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology."
--O, The Oprah Magazine "The smartest book you can get your hands on."
--Los Angeles Times "A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talented writers today."
--The New York Review of Books "It ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has changes, including you, the reader."
--The New Republic "Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking. . . . Features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human."
--The Chicago Tribune "Egan's bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life."
--Vogue "Told with both affection and intensity,
Goon Squad stands as a brilliant, all-absorbing novel for the beach, the woods, the air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your iPod. Stay with this one."
--Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered "Brilliant, inventive. . . . Emboldening. It cracks the world open afresh. . . . Would that Marcel Proust could receive [a copy]. It would blow his considerable mind. . . . Expect to inhale Egan's
A Visit From the Goon Squad. Then expect it to lodge in your cranium and your breastbone a good long while."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer "Frequently dazzling. . . . Egan's expert flaying of human foibles has the compulsive allure of poking at a sore tooth: excruciating but exhilarating too."
--Entertainment Weekly "If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with
The Goon Squad instead."
--The Washington Post
