![]() ![]() Naturally this was followed by stirrings of the usual Phase II of a Cultural Phenomenon: backlash. Egan’s sprawling novel-in-stories, every chapter a different experiment (a celebrity profile, a second-person essay, a PowerPoint presentation), won a National Book Critics Circle Award in March, then the Pulitzer Prize, and, a week after that, an option from HBO for a series. And then Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad began beating the Time cover boy in awards contests coast-to-coast. That novel, of course, was Jonathan Franzen’s much-hyped Freedom. As of a few months ago, you could be forgiven for thinking that 2010 had spawned only one beautifully written polyphonic novel about musicians, compulsives, and postmodern American despair. ![]()
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