A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread Italy By all accounts

By all accounts

Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety

Desperate to hide the truth

tender and profound

It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better- better for the planet

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread Italy By all accountsJennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time. Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk