{"product_id":"understanding-jennifer-egan","title":"Understanding Jennifer Egan","description":"\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jennifer Egan\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, \u003cem\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/em\u003e. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works, analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoran argues that because Egan's fiction is not easily categorized many of her novels have been underappreciated. He proposes a framework for understanding her writing centered on what it means to have, and to write, an \"authentic\" experience. In \u003cem\u003eEmerald City\u003c\/em\u003e, Egan explores the authenticity of touristic experience; in \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, her focus shifts to the authenticity of historical memory; in \u003cem\u003eLook at Me, The Keep\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/em\u003e, she explores the effects of digital technology on how we understand authentic experience. In the concluding chapter, Moran discusses Egan's 2017 novel \u003cem\u003eManhattan Beach\u003c\/em\u003e as a text that explores the authenticity of history and genre while resonating with the instability of the present.","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427681509720,"sku":"9781643362250","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/understanding-jennifer-egan","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}