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Richard Wright began life from the bottom – from the slum through foster homes – and rose up to the heights becoming a well-respected literary icon he is remembered as today. However, it is important to remember that his exceptional talent for crafting award-worthy short stories was what served as a game changer for him during his early years of struggle.
Richard Wright was a versatile writer who wrote short story collections, novels, and poems – and in the later part of his writing career, wrote political critiques and essays. His primary themes were pinned around American civil rights issues and racial inequality.
Jennifer Egan’s ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ is innovatively written across different writing styles – effectively transitioning from newspaper article style to short stories collection style to novel writing style. The book is genuinely complicated, but is also a worthwhile read with loads of introspective lessons to be learned.
Jennifer Egan’s ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ has at least three historical events that set the mood for the overall plot; the terror attack of the World Trade Center in 2001, the 1970s San Francisco punk rock era, and the advent of social media and the internet.
The inevitability of time is one unchanging aspect of reality that Jennifer Egan’s ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad hammered severely on. All her many characters – major and minor – are impacted by this phenomenon and there’s certainly more than a few admonitions for readers to pick out from the best quotes offered by the book.
‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ features an array of characters from different times, but core to these characters are the troubled Sasha Blake and rock music exec Bennie Salazar.
In ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad,’ Jennifer Egan tries to explore the theme of time and how quickly it can flash before our eyes, often leaving us reminiscing about some good memories from the past or regretting having lived less than we planned to.
‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan follows a multi-style narration where some are done in the first person, some in the second, and others in the third person. The book consists of 13 chapters and each tells a complete, independent story with a different protagonist of its own.
Jennifer Egan’s writings are so naturally structured that they touch on aspects of life such as family, love, hope, personal struggles, death, etcetera. Her book quotes are the best places for readers to find solace and inspiration for their personal battles and trials.
Jennifer Egan’s back catalogue is a proven fertile ground for some of the best film helmers and directors, and it’s not hard to understand why that is because her storylines are innovative, engaging and actable on the big screen.