It's nearly shocking, even daring: after exhibiting the marvelous and exciting things she can do with structure, she sat down to write a candid conventional novel. It's a historical best-seller, one that skips through time a bit but in an entirely accessible way. Egan's new fiction, Manhattan Beach, is not showy or experimental. One of the sections is a PowerPoint presentation. From the kleptomaniac to his mentor to her boss to his lover to her boyfriend to his bandmate who is also the boss in chapter two to his wife, and on and on and on. All at a different and non-sequential point in a 40-year span of time, each one leading to the next in an implacable result. Her writing A Visit From the Goon Squad consisted of 13 chapters, Each from a different point of view. Manhattan Beach Novel By Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan conquered the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011 it was a flamboyant novel with an innovative structure.
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